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Archives We are delighted to announce that from Tuesday 29th June we will be extending our offer to customers visiting the archives.   So what has changed?   Our original archive area will now be open from Tues-Fri from 10.30-15:30 by appointment, however there will no longer be a requirement to book your documents in...

Worcestershire Archive and Archaeology Service are pleased to announce a new website for the Worcestershire Research Framework for the Historic Environment. What is a research framework? Research Frameworks help identify gaps in our knowledge and suggest questions to fill those gaps. They help to co-ordinate and focus research and projects. Archaeological Research Frameworks can cover...

Family history research can take you beyond the census, via newspapers, and into the original archives. One of our staff researching her great-great-grandfather in Worcester discovered he built some important local buildings, including the now demolished Worcester Dispensary. His name shows up on building plans and in his church cashbook, as he kept himself busy.

While we have been closed to visitors, staff have been working hard during the past year to make more of our archives available to researchers working remotely. We have been working on updating our Maps and Plans Index and have created a new searchable database that will replace the existing one on our website. You...

We have started a new series on Tuesday highlighting the underrepresented parts of history and our collections – you can find them on social media by looking for #HiddenHeroes or #HiddenHistory.  These people or groups may be hard to find within the archives, or difficult to find in the archaeological record. It may be due...

Worcestershire Archive & Archaeology Service Customer Survey is now live! We’d like to hear what you think about our services. Have you visited us in The Hive, read posts on our social media, or sent an enquiry to our Archives or Historic Environment Record teams? Have you used our online resources, catalogues, databases and indexes?...

In this final 20th century project blog, we focus on how transport and travel, and particularly the rise of car ownership and individual mobility, has transformed the landscape and how we live our lives.

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.

Worcester Life Stories is a collaborative project bringing local people together through shared stories of the City of Worcester. We supported the project by digitising photographs from film they had in their collections. Sheena Payne-Lunn, Historic Environment Record Officer for Worcester City Council, explains about the project and shares some of the lovely images we digitised.

Over half term we are going around Worcestershire with a family Archaeology Quest, with the help of the National Lottery Heritage Fund. Come and have a go at being an archaeologist and see what you can discover! We’ve got several challenges for you have a go at – see what you can identify and work...