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While sorting through a small collection I came across a photograph taken from Worcester Cathedral looking across the Worcester Porcelain works and surrounding area. It showed Worcester when the Bath Road took you to open Countryside. With thanks to Mr Gwillam for use of this photograph We were intrigued by the photograph and began trying...

Explore Your Archive Box from Archives & Records Association on Vimeo. The 2014 Explore Your Archive campaign will be running from 10th to 16th November and Worcestershire Archive Service is lending its voice to encourage the nation to engage with and value the archives that make up our national treasures.  Taking inspiration from the first...

This week’s Treasure is a watercolour, which has been chosen by Carol Wood, Archive Assistant: This watercolour was found in the front of one of the design sketch books created by Phillip Grazebrook, an architect from Hagley. His sketch books are full of pencil drawings of decorative features and designs.  A number of these are...

Here is the second instalment of Emma Heatherley’s post detailing her time at WAAS on a university work experience placement: I spent a lot of time working with the User Services team on level two of The Hive, mainly on the ‘Explore the Past’ desk shadowing the Archivists and Archive Assistants as they carried out different roles...

Over the last few weeks Worcestershire Archive and Archaeology Service has had the pleasure of hosting a 100 hour work experience placement for Emma Heatherley, a student from Newman University, Birmingham. During her time here Emma had the chance to get an insight into the wide range of roles that take place behind the scenes in...

This week’s Treasure has been chosen by David Everett, one of our long-serving regular customers and a member of the Friends of Worcestershire Archives. David came across the following item nestled amongst the records of Stone parish whilst undertaking research in the Original Archive Area at The Hive. The particularly ghoulish illustrations that accompany these documents make them quite fitting for...

As we celebrate Halloween and gorge ourselves on chocolate and sweets, the idea of all-pervading evil seems a long way away. But in the past this wasn’t the case. In the medieval and post-medieval periods, there was a real belief in evil, witches and demons. It was felt that they could attack you, your household,...

As part of the Worcester World War One Hundred project we are producing resources for schools to help them with a local focus to looking at the World war One.    The first is based around war memorials and tracing soldiers, which many schools are undertaking. In the pack are lesson plans and ideas. The...

Twenty years ago almost 1,000 Iron Age coins were discovered at Pershore by metal detectorists, which turned out to be one of most important archaeological finds in recent years. Archaeologists were informed quickly and this led to an excavation revealing an Iron Age/Roman settlement which professionals had been unaware of until then. The coins, both gold and...

On Monday 10th November we are running a workshop about World War I in the Archives here at The Hive. Although there have always been people using us to research WWI soldiers and local places during the war, there has been a large increase recently due to the centenary, prompting many individuals and groups to investigate...