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In this blog, we explore some of the records that reveal how fashion evolved across generations of the Sandys family. Clothes tell us a lot about the past. They offer insights into changing tastes, social attitudes and everyday life. The Sandys family of Ombersley created and kept a wealth of records that today help us...

In today’s blog, we tell the story of Lilly Pearson, a young woman admitted to Powick asylum whose time is recorded in records we hold over 100 years ago. Alongside patient files which are catalogued covering the period 1890’s-1980’s, we hold admission and discharge registers and volumes containing patient case notes from the late 19th...

Worcestershire Archives and Archaeology Service are privileged to have a deposit in their collections connected to one of Worcestershire’s most distinguished naval heroes, Admiral Sir William George Tennant. In this article, we will take a look into the life of Admiral Tennant. Born at Quatford, Shropshire in January 1890 to Edmund and Mary Tennant, William...

One of the interesting collections we’ve come across as part of our retroconversion project are four cricketing memorabilia books, collected by three members of the same family – Ruth Jackson, the depositor, and her mother and aunt Frances and Eleanor Bomford. We have three autograph books and a scrapbook, compiled on and off over 96...