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September is here, and for many people their thoughts turn to taking up a new activity or going back to an old hobby after the holidays. We often get more enquiries about starting family history in September and January, so we run workshops to help people get started and find out more about the sources....

Displays for the Three Counties Traditional Orchard Project are now up in Evesham and Tenbury libraries. The project has been raising awareness of the heritage of orchards in Worcestershire, Herefordshire and Gloucestershire, as well as helping local people to look after and restore surviving orchards. Historical  research was an important part of the project and...

What’s so unusual about an old pot falling apart? Isn’t that just what old things do?   This particular pot is decorated and comes from a Bronze Age cremation cemetery in Staffordshire, so it is at least 3500 years old. The pot was found fairly whole, standing up in a small pit, filled with a...

  Our first Find of the Month, found on Tuesday in Gloucestershire, is a 2000 year old glass bead.   The lime green translucent bead has twisted yellow and blue glass threads wrapped around it (time has changed the blue to red). Due to the style of the bead, we believe it is early Roman,...

On Tuesday afternoon, we found a sword. Yes, you have read correctly. A sword. Despite the impression given by Indiana Jones, finds like this are very, very rare. The sword is iron, and 60cm long in total with a 48cm blade. It was found in the ring gully of a roundhouse (a shallow ditch dug...

We recently received another accolade as we were awarded a ‘highly commended’ in the recent Archaeology Training Forum Awards for our archaeology traineeships. To encourage the development of new archaeologists and organisations to provide opportunities for new recruits to develop their skills and careers, the Chartered Institute for Archaeologists are looking to help bridge the...

Get up close to one of the famous Despatch Boxes held aloft by the Chancellor of the Exchequer in a one day exhibition about Stanley Baldwin 2017 is the 150th anniversary of the birth of Stanley Baldwin, the three time Prime Minister from Worcestershire. To coincide with this we will be display documents from his...

  Lavinia Talbot kept a diary from her teens to old age.  She regularly recorded her thoughts and feelings about her life and events unfolding around her.  Her three sons served in the forces during World War I, as did the children of her wider circle of family and friends, so her wartime diaries include...

It has now been 10 years since Worcestershire, and much of the country, was hit by severe flooding. June 2007 had already been very wet, with minor flooding, and there were some additional floods early on in July too. On St Swithun’s day (15th July) it rained hard, which tradition suggests may have given some indication...

Worcestershire Archive Service is pleased to be able to relaunch two of our previously created resource packs.  These packs were originally put together in response to an emerging interest in Black and Asian history in Worcestershire, but later developed to encompass a much broader view, containing aspects of many different cultures, ethnicities and backgrounds.  We have...