Events - Worcestershire Archive & Archaeology Service

Join us for a  behind the scenes for a tour of what is unique, special and treasured about Worcestershire Archives and their wonderful collections. Highlights will include a letter sent from the Titanic, Shakespeare’s marriage bond, documents from the reign of King Charles I and the Worcestershire photographic survey.

Book for the 11 – 11.45 tour

Book for the 1.30 – 2.15 tour

Interested in researching your family history but not sure where to start? We are running a workshop to introduce you to the resources available at The Hive to get you started on your family history journey.

No previous experience necessary, but please bring any family history information you already have (names/dates/places) with you on the day, along with a Worcestershire Library card* to allow access to the computers, if you wish.

*If you do not have one, please bring ID to get one on the day.

Join our archivists for a celebration of the New Jerusalems project to catalogue and make accessible archives that tell the story of the development of Redditch into a New Town.

There will be talks about the project at 11am and 2pm, an exhibition to browse and activities to get involved with.

Aimed at new users, this workshop will give an overview of the Archive Self-Service area, introducing some of the sources available for Worcestershire. The workshop aims to give confidence to those wanting to use this area, showing the type of information available and how to use the resources. 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. Please bring your library cards with you if you wish to use the computers. Microform images can be saved to a memory stick by using designated software available on two specialist computers, so you may wish to bring one with you too.

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

Come 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 you how to use our resources.

An annual day of 8 talks celebrating and sharing recent investigations in Worcestershire, run by Explore the Past – the county Archive & Archaeology Service.

Programme
This year’s talks will include:

• Hear from Worcester’s new Cathedral Archaeologist!
• Updates from the field
• Fascinating Finds of 2024
• The Archaeology of Worcester in 20 Digs – James Dinn talks about his new book.

Day tickets (£23) – attend in person at The Hive, this includes refreshments on arrival, at morning break and afternoon break.