Projects

The history of the Sandys family of Ombersley dates back almost 400 years. Ombersley Court – the impressive, listed manor and estate set in the Worcestershire countryside, home to the titled family since 1614 – forms the backdrop to their story; one that is of both local and national interest. When the late Lord Sandys,...

Worcestershire Archive and Archaeology Service secured £73000 in 2022 from The National Archives’ (TNA) New Burdens fund to catalogue and improve access to certain public records under The Public Records Act. The act requires certain public bodies to transfer records of historical value for permanent preservation to their archive services appointed as ‘places of deposit’. Following...

Explore the story behind the human skeleton found buried within an embankment of the Worcester, Bromyard and Leominster Railway line in 2021, close to Riverlands Farm in Leigh, to the west of Worcester.  Built in the 1860s, the line eventually closed in the 1960s, and by 2021 all that remained was the earthwork of the...

An online exhibition exploring the archaeology of a moated Elizabethan hall turned enamelling factory in Wolverhampton, excavated in 2020-21 at the new City Learning Quarter site.

Telling Worcester’s stories through art, literature, photography and zine making! History in the Making is a year-long programme of creative activities celebrating Worcestershire’s rich heritage and the voices of underrepresented communities.

The Valuation Office Survey of 1910 resulted in the creation of a snapshot of land across the county of Worcestershire, in common with other counties in England, and the associated Valuation Summary books are to be found at the Hive in Worcester. An on-going project is transcribing these books for each civil parish in the...

About the project Worcestershire Archive & Archaeology Service has secured funding to catalogue and make accessible archives that tell the story of Redditch’s development into a New Town. We will also be cataloguing Cwmbran New Town archives held at Archifau Gwent (Gwent Archives). Links to the project blogs are at the end of this article....

A National Lottery and Arts Council funded community project to explore and share the archaeology within a new woodland near Evesham, Worcestershire. Survey of the site had revealed an Iron Age/ Romano-British settlement, trackways and possibly earlier prehistoric activity too. Thanks to the excavation, we now have a window into what really went on, who lived there and when.

Unearthing stories of medieval rural Worcestershire through community Big Digs. This National Lottery Heritage Fund project investigated six historic villages during 2021 - 2023. What did we find? Take a look!

The Redditch Military Tribunal Project was developed as an additional project to compliment the work of the Worcestershire World War 100 project. This was the largest WWI Commemoration project outside London, and brought together a large groups of partners to deliver events across the county.     The new project, following on, was considered important...