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There are still plenty of opportunities for users to carry out research at our History Centre. It’s a great place to visit for anyone starting out on their family or local history research. Here’s a bit more information: At the History Centre in Trinity Street, Worcester, we hold microfilm copies of the most popular sources for...

Messrs. Marcy, Hemmingway & Sons of Bewdley. This is a collection of over 155,000 solicitors’ papers that date from the 14th to the 20th century and cover the whole of Worcestershire. On the face of it this may seem quite stuffy, but it actually contains an Aladdin’s cave of information about property and families in Worcestershire and...

It’s time for another instalment of our behind the scenes tour and this week we are taking you into one of our strongrooms for a peek. Have you ever wondered what we get up to when we leave to fetch a box for you? If so click on the link below to find out: We’ll be back soon...

On Monday 14th November, we held an open day event to give our users one last chance to view some of the treasured items from within our collections before we closed for the final time. The day was a big success and people thoroughly enjoyed seeing the documents out on display. ?We had a lot...

Number six in our Top 10 most used archive collections are our Quarter Sessions papers. The Worcestershire Quarter Sessions records date from 1591 and include papers relating to crimes such as adultery, prostitution, bastardy, theft, vagrancy and disorderly behaviour. They were held 4 times a year at Epiphany (January), Easter (March/April), Midsummer (July) and Michaelmas...

The last ever stocktaking at the History Centre took place on the 7th and 8th November. This is an annual event which gives staff a chance to catch up on work which will help to improve the service we provide to the public. This year our main focus was to prepare our library stock for...

Number seven in our countdown of the Top 10 most accessed collections is the collection of Diocesan filing. What is Diocesan Filing? Here at Worcestershire Record Office, we have a large collection of mysterious records often referred to by staff only by their reference number—’the 728s’.  These are the records of Diocesan Filing, popularly known as...

This week our behind the scenes tour takes us into our Dark Room – the home of our Digitisation and Microfilming team, made up of John and Jonathan. Our Digitisation and Microfilming team, John (back) and Jonathan (front) What is digitisation? Digitisation is the process of creating a digital copy of an item – whether...

Number eight in our countdown of the Top 10 most accessed collections are our Electoral Registers: A perennially popular family and house history resource.  The earliest Worcester City electoral registers held by the Worcestershire Record Office are dated 1837 and the most recent is from 2005.  For the rest of the county we hold electoral registers...