- 26th November 2012
Would you be able to tell us what any of the following are? Brown Hackle Peacock Bloody Mary Green Midge Golden Pheasant Jenny Spinner Orange Otter Red Furnace Yellow Peril Colonel Dowman’s Fancy Cowdung Treacle Parkin Turkey Tip Welsh Partridge Imperial Fly Yellow Sally Infallible Bloody Doctor Sound familiar? They are actually all different types...
- 15th November 2012
Do you wish to feedback comments about the archive service at The Hive? Now is your opportunity to contribute to the development of our future service provision… From Monday 19th to Sunday 25th November we will be asking for your thoughts on the Archive Service at The Hive. The results will be analysed and, where...
- 13th November 2012
A new DVD is about the come out featuring archival film footage from around the county. Films have come from the collections of the Media Archive for Central England as well as our collections. One of the highlights will be the visit by Winston Churchill in May 1950 to receive the freedom of the city....
- 31st October 2012
We recently welcomed children from a number of Worcester Schools to Archives and Archaeology in The Hive. They had all been invited to see the ‘Beyond the City Walls’ exhibition which has been on display in the studio and marked the end of the Worcester Archive Source Project, a project to catalogue and promote the...
- 22nd October 2012
Bookings are now open for the Worcestershire Archaeology Dayschool on Saturday 17th November. The popular one day conference, organised by Worcestershire Archive & Archaeology Service, will showcase the latest results from archaeological fieldwork and other research for the public. This year the conference will again be held at the University of Worcester (St John’s Campus),...
- 14th October 2012
Dr Adrian Gregson, our Collections Manager, recently reached the milestone of working for 25 years with Worcestershire County Council. We asked him a few questions about his time here. What job did you do when you joined Worcestershire Record Office (now part of Worcestershire Archive and Archaeology Service), and what did it entail? It was Hereford and...
- 9th October 2012
Regular users of our service may have noticed that our packed programme of events has been on pause. With our move to The Hive taking up so much time we had to curtail our activities. Quite a few people have contacted us to find out when our courses will be running and when we...
- 25th September 2012
It’s that time of year when the students are returning and a fresh batch of newcomers arrive to begin their university careers. The Hive is currently bustling with students who are visiting to scope out their new university library facilities and all of the other services which share this amazing space. The Hive presents a...
- 12th July 2012
Regular visitors to this blog may have noticed that it has undergone a slight change, as we have relaunched the blog with the new name ‘Explore the Past’. The original blog ‘Worcestershire Archives on the Move’ was designed to inform our users of our progress throughout the move of the Record Office and History Centre to our...
- 6th July 2012
Visitors to The Hive may have noticed something quite unusual under the main staircase, which is in fact a reconstructed Roman oven. This exciting feature has been installed in the building to give a glimpse into the work of the Archaeology Service. The oven structure was discovered during the archaeological excavation at The Hive in 2008,...