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A set of letters, programmes and postcards amongst items being catalogued in our Library Pamphlets collection (which came from Worcestershire History Centre before the service moved to The Hive in 2012) reveals that important local photographer A.J. Woodley (a Fellow of the Royal Photographic Society) had a particular interest in the celebrated 19th century poet...

We look back to The Queen's visit to Worcestershire in 1957. Within the archives we have two boxes of documents and correspondence from the Lord Lieutenant about the arrangements, telling the story behind organising a Royal Visit.

As part of the Unlocking The Severn project we helped volunteers investigate different aspects of the River's history through the archives

  From the 8th April until 11th June an exhibition celebrating the Unlocking the Severn Project will be on show in The Hive.  It is the culmination of a five-year project run by the Canal and Rivers Trust in partnership with Severn Rivers Trust, the Environment Agency and Natural England. Funding is being provided by...

We are thrilled to wish Tony Wherry, 2nd County Archivist a very ‘Happy Birthday!’ today, Monday 29th June. Our current County Archivist Dr Adrian Gregson thought it’d be a perfect opportunity to revisit this 75th Anniversary blog to celebrate…  Tony Wherry stepped into the big shoes of Harry Sargeant to become the second County Archivist...

Worcestershire has a long tradition of newspapers, with arguably the world oldest newspaper in current and continuous production – Berrow’s Worcester Journal. The British Library has a new exhibition, Breaking The News, which is being currently shown in The Hive, and will tour around Libraries. To go alongside this we have created a display highlighting...

Frost fairs are more commonly known to have been held on the River Thames, the most recent example being in London in 1814. Examples of provincial frost fairs include one held in Shrewsbury in 1739. A printed souvenir held within the archives from 1855 has led us to investigate whether there is any evidence of...

An Iron Age enclosure dating from about 2,250 years ago has recently been excavated by our archaeologists. We have excavated many Iron Age settlements over the years, but this one differs from other sites we’ve worked on. The location is on the site of a new roundabout being constructed by Worcestershire County Council at the...

1000 intricately painted bees are being displayed outside The Hive until 2nd September 2021 to raise funds for St Richard’s Hospice. Humans have long history with honey bees and we thought we’d take the opportunity to explore the archaeological and historical evidence of that relationship.

Today we hear from one of the Redditch Military Service Tribunals Project Volunteers, Derek Coombes, who provides us with his perspective of records and the history of the Redditch Tribunals revealed through the research he undertook as part of our National Lottery Heritage funded project.