- 19th November 2015
Today we are looking at the extraordinary life of a Worcestershire resident who we actually featured a part of last year’s Explore Your Archive campaign too. As part of our feature on Dandy Row in 2014, we looked briefly at the life of Henry Martin. As a result of this initial work we were lucky...
- 18th November 2015
Today we mark Explore Your Archive 2015 by looking at the life of a man who worked as the first County Surveyor for Worcestershire. Joseph Garrett was born in Gloucestershire. He worked as a road surveyor and, according to his obituary in the Worcester Journal he became head surveyor in Kidderminster in 1877. He became the...
- 17th November 2015
Today we mark Explore Your Archive 2015 by looking at the extraordinary life of a man who worked for a short while as House Surgeon at Kidderminster Infirmary and went on to take part in one of the early Arctic Expeditions. A chance discussion with a researcher in our Original Archive Area led to the...
- 16th November 2015
Worcestershire’s historic past is made up of multiple layers of lives: sometimes dramatic, sometimes tragic, sometimes unacknowledged and occasionally forgotten. Staff at Worcestershire Archive Service discover hints of these people every day when helping researchers to explore the archives, however, we rarely get to find out more about them. To mark the Explore Your Archive 2015 campaign,...
- 13th November 2015
Would you like to go behind the scenes here in The Hive? Would you see some the archive ‘treasures’ and handle real archaeological objects. As part of Explore Your Archive we are offering another of our popular tours which take you past the ‘staff only’ doors. Archive Strongroom – come and see where we store...
- 10th November 2015
Jean North interviewing Mrs Hewlett Getting Started It’s 20 years since the then Hereford and Worcester Record Office took its first tentative steps into the world of oral history. The first project was quite an ambitious one – a five year project to record local people’s reminiscences of World War II. Valuable support came from...
- 5th November 2015
Tea and Testimony:Discovering the extraordinary lives of ordinary people Worcestershire’s historic past is made up of multiple layers of the lives of its residents – sometimes dramatic, sometimes tragic, sometimes unacknowledged and occasionally even forgotten. Many of these people, though ordinary, actually had an extraordinary impact upon the world. Worcestershire Archive Service has a wealth of...
- 25th October 2015
To mark the 600th anniversary of the Battle of Agincourt (25 October 1415), we wanted to show you a document in our collections issued by Henry V several months before the famous victory over the French. Worcestershire has long been associated with Agincourt. Michael Drayton’s 17th-century poem The Battaile of Agincourt famously evoked the Worcestershire...
- 22nd October 2015
On Friday 6th November we are running our WWI in the Archives workshop. There is a lot of interest in this period, and this workshop The first part of the workshop will look at how you can trace a soldier within the records held here. Many people are working on projects researching men listed on...
- 21st October 2015
Next week we will bid our Skills for the Future Trainee, Sarah, a fond farewell. She has worked incredibly hard and achieved a lot since starting with our Service in July 2014. Staff and customers alike will be sad to see her go, but we look forward to hearing about her next steps. Here, Sarah...