- 3rd April 2018
An exhibition is taking place in The Hive café, inspired by the maps in our archives, and created by members of a MapArt Interest Group. It all began last year when artist Rosie McMinn started a group which met in The Hive to create artwork inspired by maps. If you have seen the maps in...
- 31st March 2018
Archaeologists don’t look at fossils, right? Normally this is the case – palaeontology is the study of fossil animals and plants, whilst archaeology is concerned with the human past. Very occasionally though, fossils creep into the archaeological record. This month two fossilised shark teeth were found in a prehistoric pit during a site evaluation...
- 27th March 2018
From Friday 6th to Sunday 8th April you will be able to see projections of magic lantern slides at The Hive, from 8.30pm – 10.30pm. Large projections of these images will be cast on to the city wall and Hive windows. The slides were taken by Arthur Henry Whinfield, a Worcester resident, from all around...
- 13th March 2018
Adding a new layer: 20th century non-domestic buildings and public places in Worcestershire The 20th century was a period of rapid industrial, economic, social, cultural and technological change. These changes, often driven and most certainly overshadowed by war, transformed the English landscape, adding another layer of complexity to England’s long history of re-invention. ...
- 8th March 2018
Historically, academia was seen as an exclusively male endeavour, and when a few talented women did find a way in their contributions were often overlooked. For our Lost Landscapes project, investigating the Ice Age in Worcestershire, we’ve been delving deep into the antiquarian beginnings of archaeology, geology and natural history. The more we look,...
- 5th March 2018
Stone structures are a tangible example of archaeology, often easy to see and appreciate. Being visible doesn’t make them any easier for the archaeologist to understand though. A lot of the time, when people see archaeological sites it can be difficult to grasp what is going on. Archaeologists’ focus on what we call ‘features’,...
- 1st March 2018
A unique collection of magic lantern slides are the inspiration for a new art project, we’ve interviewed Rob Hewitt from Redhawk Logistica to find out more… The project is celebrating a unique collection of photographic magic lantern slides taken by a Worcester resident, Arthur Henry Whinfield. He lectured to many local folk about his...
- 28th February 2018
Picture a tiny white glass bead decorated with four thin blue stripes. Now shrink it. February’s star find is a miniscule Roman bead – 2.7mm across to be precise. It is so small that we’ve had to ask our in house digitisation team to take a photo of it, and even they exclaimed “there’s...
- 26th February 2018
Two workshops have recently been hosted by Worcestershire Archive & Archaeology Service to bring together the prehistoric, Roman, and medieval ceramic research groups to discuss the creation of universal terminologies and study approaches. At present each group has their own terms for pottery forms (shape) and there are many geographically specific and overlapping reference...
- 19th February 2018
In 2018, the Worcestershire World War 100 project is looking to bring forgotten and half remembered stories of how the First World War affected the lives of the people of Worcestershire. Since the start of the project, we have invited members of the public to share their family stories and memorabilia, which we will...