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- 19th June 2014
The first copy of the much anticipated children’s history of Worcester, “Stories of Worcester”, arrived at The Hive yesterday to the delight of staff and authors alike. Pat Hughes (front left), co-author of ‘Stories of Worcester’ and WAAS staff Claire Haslam (r-l) and Julia Pincott (r-r) who have assisted with the process of publishing the...
- 7th March 2014
This week’s Treasure has been chosen by Jonathan Brusby, Digitiser. Here he explains how he discovered so much more than first expected when working with a Victorian recipe book: This treasure is a family recipe book which isn’t what it seems. Inside there are many inedible concoctions, made with very strange ingredients like Eau...
- 10th December 2013
Today we bring you an item held at Worcester Cathedral Library, which has been carefully digitised by the Digitisation team at Worcestershire Archive and Archaeology Service. This is a medieval medical text book compiled in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries. The first part contains three Latin translations of Arabic medical texts. They were translated by Gerard...
- 22nd March 2013
On Wed 3rd April author Pauline Conolly will be talking about her newly published book, The Water Doctor’s Daughters, about a true event in Victorian Malvern. This was partly researched through the resources of Worcestershire Archive & Archaeology Service “A true story of injustice, ignorance and misguided religious zeal. In 1852, Great Malvern water-cure practitioner...
- 7th March 2013
To celebrate World Book Day we thought that we would ask a few of our staff for their recommendations from our local studies collections…. Carol suggests ‘Heads and Tales – A History of Badsey Schools’. This book is a well researched and well written local history book. She feels that it is a good model...