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Within the Lyttelton archives is a ghostly story, with a supernatural visitor visiting Lord Lyttelton to inform him he would die in 3 days time.

Today is World Earthworm Day and a member of our Archive team who is also a committee member of the Earthworm Society of Britain has been unearthing soil and earthworm related materials from the archives!   Whilst there is a greater awareness about the threats to insect life and the recognition that pollinating insects are...

The Three Choirs Festival is the longest running non-competitive classical music festival in the world. Rotating between the English cathedral cities of Worcester, Hereford, and Gloucester, the festival hosts an annual, week-long, summer programme of concerts and services, with an accompanying fringe programme. We’ve had a look in our collections to share some of the...

We've new online Family History workshops coming in June and July. Get help in starting or restarting family history, with tips from many years experience of helping people in the searchroom and answering question.

Henry Samuel Morley and Kate Phillips – Second-Class Passengers Henry Morley travelled as a second-class passenger on the Titanic and sadly died in the sinking. He was listed as a passenger from Birmingham, but had shops in many places including Worcester, where one of his shop assistants was Kate Phillips. They eloped together on the...

With the 2021 census due for completing on Sunday 21st March, we thought we would take a closer look at the census through the years. What is the census?   The census was the brainchild of statistician John Rickman. He originally gave twelve reasons census information should be collected, including to find the number of...

On #BugBustingDay Rhonda, our conservator, shares about this aspect of her role. When I tell people I’ve just met that I am a Conservator, their usual response (after I’ve explained that I repair and stabilise books and paper so they can be handled and read without the danger of them falling apart)  is to say...

Over the past two years Worcestershire’s Historic Environment Record has been working to identify, record and better understand the significance of 20th Century buildings and public places across the County. Many more await discovery and assessment! Funded by Historic England, this project has also aimed to strengthen the public’s awareness and appreciation of ‘everyday’ 20th...

The Worcestershire Historic Environment Record (HER) Public Desk will be reopening from Thursday 3rd December. To allow for social distancing measures, the desk will be operating on an appointment only basis between 10:30 and 13:30 on Tuesdays and Thursdays. The Worcestershire HER is the County’s primary record for archaeological and historic environment information, holding over...

Did you know Charles Darwin had links to Malvern? In this three part blog we look at his visits and connections to the water cure using some of the books and information in our collections. Darwin returned to Down House in July, 1849 and in his letter to his cousin William Darwin Fox on the...