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On Wednesday 16th October the Hive was host to an English Heritage Rural Synthesis Workshop. The aim of the workshop was to examine different scales and perspectives for identifying, understanding and protecting the historic character and significance of heritage features, within their landscape and settlement context, with a view to informing the next phase of...

We are pleased to bring you a new feature on our blog, which over the coming months will see us introducing the work of various members of our team here at the Archive and Archaeology Service, in order to give our readers more of an idea of what we get up to behind closed doors....

You can find out more about what Worcestershire Archive and Archaeology Service has been up to over the last 12 months with our newly published Annual Report for 2012 to 2013. Find out more about the teams that make up our service; catch up on our latest projects and see the highlights of our first full...

Around the 3rd September a number of events took place to mark the anniversary of the Battle of Worcester, which was the final battle of the English Civil Wars. This being a major part in the history of Worcester and the county, we have various sources here to help you find out more about this...

Worcestershire Archaeology have featured in the news recently following the discovery of a human skull. Here Nick Daffern, Senior Environmental Archaeologist, tells us more about the processes taken to identify the find: “On 20th March 2013 West Mercia Police were contacted by a member of the public. They had discovered what appeared to be a...

One of the most popular reasons for people to come to The Hive and use our resources is  family history, which is very popular. Whether it is triggered by watching the latest series of Who Do You Think You Are?, discovery of old photos or letters, a conversation with relatives or simple curiosity we are...

Worcestershire Archive and Archaeology Service (WAAS) and Worcester City Council Historic Environment Record (WHER) are considering applying to Heritage Lottery Fund to run a project to record our County’s war memorials. Our war memorials are at risk for a number of reasons: · The locations of many of them are unknown; · Many are falling into disrepair...

On Wednesday, 21st August visitors to the Children’s Library were able to find out about an unusual aspect of the history and archaeology of The Hive site, by participating in an event provided by staff from the Archive and Archaeology Service.  The activities were based around a giant 5 metre long jigsaw of a terrace of...

Harvesting is in full swing on the Worcestershire Young Archaeologists Club (WYAC) allotment. Two of our historic crops (long-straw wheat and flax) are looking good, and on the last weekend in July we started to harvest our wheat. Long-straw wheat  Flax The wheat is called Maris Widgeon which is an heritage variety of wheat, grown...

Wandering around the Worcestershire countryside for any length of time is likely to take you past small wetlands of varying descriptions – fishponds, moats, mill leats, osiers, marsh and reed beds and other boggy areas which were once river or stream channels. In a recent post we introduced a project which maps and assesses small wetlands...