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It’s #CameraDay & our digitisation team have some top spec cameras to help photograph the documents, photos & archaeological objects in amazing resolution. This enables them to digitise photos, slides, glass slides and other mediums, some common but some quite rare and specialised. They’ve been working from home, like most of us, over the past...

We have fantastic volunteers, contributing the equivalent of around 450 days a year. They help us is so many ways, and we try to share the many varied volunteering roles they do on our blog each year, and we appreciate all they do. However we know they get a lot out of volunteering too, which...

This year marks the 80th anniversary of the evacuation of Allied troops from Dunkirk. Within the archives are stories of this event by Worcestershire people, recorded as part of our WWII oral history project carried our 20-25 years ago. The operation, codenamed ‘Operation Dynamo’ which took place between 27 May and 4 June 1940, is...

Like many of you the last couple of months have been rather strange, and we are adapting to new ways of working. The Hive closed in the middle of March, but with ingenuity and commitment our staff have continued to work. We’ve been asked by a number of people what we are doing so thought...

  Now in it’s fifth year, our trainee scheme is well established. Martina, Chris and Roland joined our archaeology team in early March 2020 – ideal timing to gain experience on our busy programme of fieldwork projects. Err… or not, as it turned out. Yep, you’ve guessed it: a global pandemic and national lockdown was...

With VE day tomorrow we thought we’d share about the 1939 Register, available to search via Ancestry & Find My Past. With the current guidance to stay at home we spoke to both companies who have allowed free access at home. What is the 1939 Register? It is a register of civilian population in England...

In our series of blogs by former County Archaeologists the excavations at Deansway under what is now the Crowngate Centre came up  quite a few times. This is still the largest excavation ever undertaken in the City and the findings are still significant even after 30 years. It also played a big  part in the...

For 14 years we have been providing access to Ancestry.co.uk, one of the biggest family history websites, and we’re pleased to say to those missing access that you can now use the website at home. Hot on the heels of Find My Past being made available remotely during this time, Ancestry are also allowing customers...

Our 4th County Archaeologist was Adrian Tindall, who shares these memories. The River Severn was frozen over when I first arrived in Worcester in Christmas 1986. Shivering by an electric fire in Henwick Park lodge, with the water pipes frozen, in an unfamiliar city, I briefly doubted my decision to leave my young family temporarily...

Today we are pleased to feature a guest post from Tanya Feasey, Assistant Countryside Sites Officer, who is running variety of activities including some oral history interviewing to mark 40 years of Worcester Woods Country Park. We’ve been supporting the project, giving expert advice and running a workshop for volunteers to help them. They’ve also...