- 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...
- 16th October 2015
On 13th October WAAS Manager Victoria Bryant and User Services Manager Lisa Snook travelled to The Lowry in Salford Quays to attend the Discovering Communities Discovering Collections conference 2015. In fact, they didn’t just attend – Lisa gave a paper on a project that we have been working on over the summer to learn more...
- 2nd October 2015
In November we are starting a new 6 part Introduction to Archaeology course. Led by Justin Hughes, one of our experienced archaeologists and tutors it will introduce you to some of the basics of archaeology. Many people have enjoyed our workshops and walks over the years, or come on our community digs, and we’ve had...
- 25th September 2015
Our annual Archaeology Day School will take place on Saturday 21st November 10am-5pm. There’ll be a wide range of talks from our archaeologists and from guest speakers about recent archaeological work and projects in the county. The topics covered will include: Fascinating Finds Copcutt Excavations Worcester’s Civil War Siegeworks Dig Lich St Bromsgrove High St...