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Rhonda, our Conservator, does amazing things to repair and conserve our documents. Currently she is working on 15 boxes of wills, thanks to funding from National Conservation of Manuscripts Trust.

Sajid Riasat has been using Worcestershire Archive for many years to carry out his research, even before the service moved to The Hive building in Worcester, Level 2. Having previously spoken to Sajid back in December 2020 to discuss how WAAS can engage people with South Asian heritage, it felt right to get a few...

Our public services in The Hive are back to their normal opening hours. The Archive Searchroom & HER Desk are open as normal, & Self Service is once again open throughout The Hive's opening hours.

We've just published our first podcast! Using interviews we recorded as part of the Market Gardening Heritage Project the podcast has just gone live. have a listen and hear tales and memories of this important local industry.

The Three Choirs Festival is the longest running non-competitive classical music festival in the world. Rotating between the English cathedral cities of Worcester, Hereford, and Gloucester, the festival hosts an annual, week-long, summer programme of concerts and services, with an accompanying fringe programme. We’ve had a look in our collections to share some of the...

As part of the Worcester Charter 400 celebrations, we are supporting, there are special essay competitions. Inspired by the 1621 Charter, held in the archives, there are categories for children and adults.

Find Of The Month is actually finds of the month Two polished stone axe heads found on the same site On one of our regular sites in Staffordshire, our archaeologists found not just one, but two Neolithic polished stone axe heads. It is not that common to find one on a site, so finding two is...

We are pleased to announce electoral register indexes covering 1837-1974 are live on Ancestry at Worcestershire Electoral Registers, 1837-1974 | Ancestry®  They have been created using text recognition software, rather than being transcribed. These registers can help place your ancestors in a particular location and possibly also reveal some details about property they owned. Ancestry...

A local football story was uncovered during the Market Gardening Heritage Project, whilst going through one of the hovels which is being restored as part of the project. The hovel’s contents, which had been left behind by Edgar Wheeler after he died in the 1990s, included report sheets for the Evesham Journal, for whom he sent match reports, as well as his gardening tools and paperwork.

Read this in English 2020 gada Jūlija beigās man tika dots uzdevums atbalstīt ‘’Bīskapa Kopiju’’ projekta fotogrāfi, kura mums ir pievienojusies uz noteiktu laiku kurā tiek fotografēti šī projekta dokumenti, kas būs pieejami Ancestry mājaslapā. Satiekot Agnesi es saklausiju viņas Eiropas akcentu. Man kā Holandieša mazbērnam , kas tā arī nekad neiepazina savu vectēvu, es...