Events - Worcestershire Archive & Archaeology Service

Pop in to see our Senior Archival Photographer, who will be on hand to answer questions regarding digitising your search room finds.

He will be also available to offer advice on how to digitise your own photographic archives using your own equipment.

No booking required.

Would you like to learn how to research the history of your house? Or perhaps you are interested in another building?

Come and meet some archive staff and learn about what sources are available to research house histories in Worcestershire and how to find them. We will look at items in the library, on computer and microfilm, and original archived documents on level 2 of The Hive.

Get to know the different sources with some hand-chosen examples, and perhaps feel inspired to return and begin to research the history of your own house.

This is a course for beginners, we cannot offer specific advice or research on the day but can show individuals how to use our resources and how to research.

New to historical research?

Take a look at what we hold in the Self-Service area on level 2 of The Hive. Here you’ll find parish registers, wills, marriage licenses, photographs, trade directories, Tithes, Enclosure and OS maps, as well as free access to Ancestry, Newspapers online and Find My Past.

During this workshop we will be look at microfilms, CD Roms and online copies of historical documents that might be helpful for researching family, house history or local history and we will discuss how they can be used. There will be time afterwards to view sources of your choice, so if you have anything specific you would like to look at, please bring the information with you.

You will also need your library card, which we can create for you if you haven’t already got one, and a memory