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On Tuesday 28th October a new book about Worcestershire during WWI will be launched here in The Hive, co-authored by our Archive Collections Manager, Dr Adrian Gregson. ‘Worcestershire’s War: Voices of the First World War’ is a collaboration between Adrian, Dr Maggie Andrews and Dr John Peters, who have been working closely together on the Worcestershire WWI...

On 15th October we attended a celebratory event at the Houses of Parliament to celebrate the first 14 UK Archive Services to become accredited under the new Archive Service Accreditation scheme.  Worcestershire was one of the first 6 archive services to become accredited in November 2013, and one of the first 3 local authority archive...

‘All good adventures begin with a map’, according to the saying. We have thousands of maps here in our collections, and this workshop will help you with using them for your adventures in research. Ordnance Survey, Tithe, Enclosure, New Domesday, Estate, Geological, GOAD and definitive maps are some of the types we’ll be looking at....

Eagle-eyed readers may have noticed our shiny new address for this Blog – www.explorethepast.co.uk. All old links should redirect to this new address so we hope the transition is smooth, but if anyone comes across any problems please let us know by popping a comment below. If you want to keep up-to-date with all of...

This week’s Treasures have been chosen by Robin Whittaker – our former Archives Manager from our days as Worcestershire Record Office, based at the County Hall branch on Spetchley Road. Although he is now retired, Robin still frequents our Original Archive Area at The Hive, both as a volunteer and as a private researcher. Here, Robin tells...

Our popular annual Archaeology Dayschool will take place on Saturday 15th November. Once again there will be a full programme of talks from our staff and guest speaker, covering a range of archaeological topics. Many of these are current or recent projects so you can find out about some of the latest research. Topics covered...

This week’s Treasure has been chosen by Justin Hughes, Project Officer, who has been working alongside VAMOS Theatre:  WAAS has recently been working again with VAMOS Theatre. During the first week of the Hive’s opening, in July 2012, the Worcester-based mask theatre performed ‘Offal Tales’, the story of twins Elsie and Josie who lived in...

It isn’t very often that an in situ pot turns up at the office for excavation in the lab, and it isn’t every day that you find archaeological evidence for the use of honey in the past, but that’s what happened with this pot… Showing pot in situ, you can just make out the outline...

If you go into the new creative learning quarter of the Heart of Worcestershire College’s new campus, just by The Hive, you’ll see the local history of the site marked in a number of ways.  We’ve been working with the college over the summer to incorporate the history of the local area in the design of the interior. The...

In the course of cataloguing a collection there will be items which are found to be in poor condition and require some conservation work.  Some of the work will be minor such as fixing tears, removing sellotape or protecting the item with secondary packaging such as a custom made wrapper.  Other items may need more...