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Whilst working on some boxes of 17thC will Rhonda, our Conservator, noticed several which had unusual and intriguing marks at the end of them.

This year marks the 160th anniversary of the establishment of Morris and Co. The firm of Morris, Marshall, Faulkner & Co was established in 1861 by Morris, Rossetti and Burne-Jones, with fellow like-minded artisans and craftsmen to provide beautiful, hand-crafted products as a reaction to mass-production of the Victorian age. Their work was prolific and...

Anthony, one of our Archive team, has been looking into Isabella Ann Allen of Madresfield, a significant but little known 19th century botanist. It is fair to say that in the past few years I have become a passionate, if perhaps, a bit untidy, Gardener. It is due to my interest in the history of...

On Remembrance Day we thought we'd share a story about local soldiers using sources within the Archives The starting point was a photo in Berrow's Pictorial Supplement of six brothers who had gone off to war.

On Digital Preservation Day we look at why this is an important topic, and some of the things which need to happen to avoid digital records being lost.

Back to the Forest – Excavating a WWII site For the past 5 years we have been working in the Forest of Dean as part of the Foresters’ Forest Project. There are numerous strands to this Heritage Lottery funded landscape project, raising awareness and participation in the built, natural and cultural heritage that makes the...

The Redditch Tribunal Project produced resources online to provide access to the archives and our research. Now we have also expanded the use of the archives and research to schools through our new school’s pack. We have created a downloadable pdf which includes KS2 and KS3 lesson plans and the images you need for the classes. Get in touch for a copy.

There have been end-of-harvest festivals celebrated around the world for millennia. In the UK Halloween was originally known as Samhain, a Celtic pagan festival to celebrate the end of the year and the end of harvest. It was the beginning of winter and the work on the land was finished. To celebrate, there were great...

Within the Lyttelton archives is a ghostly story, with a supernatural visitor visiting Lord Lyttelton to inform him he would die in 3 days time.

This October we have explored archives in our collections related to Black History. We hope you enjoy the varied items relating to the Colonial history of Jamaica, Kidderminster cotton spinning, possibly the first autobiography published by an African in Britain, as well as more recent celebrations of Black Heritage. It is important to preserve and...