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Over the past year we have been helping Creative CoLab with their Heritage at Home project, funded by National Lottery Heritage Fund. Young people have got involved in learning about their own heritage, and finding out about filming and recording oral history. One of the final aspects was to run workshops about creating and caring...

Archives are only as detailed as the records they contain. In the case of market gardening, integral to the Vale of Evesham for much of the 19th and 20th centuries, there is surprisingly little. Yet records and photographs are out there in family collections, so as part of the Market Gardening Heritage project we’ve been...

Family history is very popular, and we regularly get asked about how to get started. People may be inspired by Who Do You Think You Are?, reading an article, coming across old photos, speaking to relatives or wanting to solve a puzzle. Another prompt can be having a bit of extra time, maybe after retirement...

Today we look at a lockdown day in the life of our Finds Supervisor, Rob Hedge on 16th April 2020 Today, I’m looking at some intriguing pottery from an excavation by Wessex Archaeology North. I’ve been asked to write an assessment. This is a basic quantification of different types of pottery: what type of vessels are...

For 14 years we have been providing access to Ancestry.co.uk, one of the biggest family history websites, and we’re pleased to say to those missing access that you can now use the website at home. Hot on the heels of Find My Past being made available remotely during this time, Ancestry are also allowing customers...

UPDATE 18/3/21 – There is a monthly limit for records which can be viewed which was reached for the first time in February and has just been reached for March. This will reset on 1st April We’re pleased to announce that Find My Past are allowing access at home for our customers during this period....

During archaeological excavations (or even walking around footpaths between fields) around Worcester, it is not uncommon to find bits of clay pipes.  Used by men and women while working the pipe stems often broke as they were held in the owner’s teeth and while they were readily available from shops they were also sold in...

We are thrilled to announce that our service has retained its status as an Accredited Archive, after our recent application renewal and inspection visit by The National Archives. Accredited Archive Status was introduced by The National Archives in 2013. It is designed to check that an archive service is maintaining professional standards but also, most...

We have a wealth of resources here in our collections to help you research you family, house or local history. Where do you begin discovering how much there is, where it is and what’s online? We have a free 70 page guide which you can download which is the perfect starting point, wherever you are...

We’re proud to welcome our newest team member – a highly specialised archaeologist helping us meet the challenges of both the current climate and a particular site. Signs of an Iron Age settlement have recently been found during an excavation on the edge of Worcestershire.  Alongside a boundary ditch was a large cluster of storage...