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County organisations join together on major new People’s Collection Residents asked to donate objects, photos and documents from their Coronavirus experience to the collections of Museums Worcestershire and Worcestershire Archive and Archaeology Service Collections will record personal experiences in extraordinary times Whilst the residents of Worcestershire are living through the Covid-19 pandemic, Museums Worcestershire and...

Like many of you the last couple of months have been rather strange, and we are adapting to new ways of working. The Hive closed in the middle of March, but with ingenuity and commitment our staff have continued to work. We’ve been asked by a number of people what we are doing so thought...

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....

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...

A couple of years ago we ran Lost Landscapes, a project on Ice Age Worcestershire, along with Museums Worcestershire. Funded by National Lottery Heritage Fund and Arts Council England we drew together research and information on half a million years of history, from the time our first ancestors arrived until the end of the last...

Within our collections we have many wonderful images. Some of these we share on social media and, unsurprisingly, they are a big hit with lots of re-shares, likes and comments. Other images you may have found yourself  when you used our collections at The Hive . On our Website we now have an image gallery....

Volunteers contributed 3281 hours (444 days!) last year across the service and provide fantastic help in many different ways. Some have been volunteering with us longer than we can remember and we appreciate them so much. In most cases they are doing ‘value added’ work which we would not be able to do otherwise as part...

We have recently received an interesting deposit and would love to find out more about the owner and whether any of his family are still in the area.   Worcestershire Archive and Archaeology Service have recently received a 1941 Italian copy of Pinocchio from the Fondazione Nazionale Carlo Collodi  that originally belonged to  Doctor Arthur...

There’s a way where you can both support our work and provide a gift to yourself or a friend at the same time. Our Adopt a Document scheme allows you to select and adopt a document, whilst helping with important conservation work. Keith Parsons’ son in law adopted a document on his behalf. Keith is...