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- 26th January 2018
Documents revealing the story of Shakespeare’s personal, business and family life have been listed on UNESCO International Memory of the World. The collection includes three documents that we hold as part of the Diocese of Worcester collection. Of the hundreds of thousands of documents in our care, William Shakespeare’s marriage bond is probably one...
- 25th January 2018
Worcestershire Archive and Archaeology Service (WAAS), in partnership with Worcester Diocesan Church House Trust (WDCHT) has been successful in its bid for £39,000 from the Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF) to conserve, catalogue and share the Arthur Henry Whinfield Lantern Slide Collection. The remarkable photographic collection of this Worcestershire resident was donated by his widow,...
- 22nd December 2017
Mince pies are a popular part of Christmas and we expect most of you have had quite a few already. In the past we’ve shared this recipe for Mince Pyes from 1790, taken from a book in the Lechmere archives. Other recipes include gingerbread, roasting lobsters and stewing cucumber the Hanley way. We’ve always thought...
- 21st December 2017
Hopefully you’ve sent your Christmas cards by now? The very first Christmas card was sent in 1843. Whilst we don’t have any that old in the archives we do have a number of cards from the late 19th and early 20th century. We thought we’d share a few with you, although some of them don’t...
- 19th December 2017
Did you ever go through Kays catalogue, looking at toys and gifts to put on your Christmas list? Or did you work at Kays and can remember people sending in their Christmas orders? Many people have vivid memories of Kays catalogues, especially in the run up to Christmas when hours could be spent going...
- 3rd November 2017
Have you been enjoying the TV series Gunpowder on a Saturday night? Worcestershire people played a key role in the Gunpowder Plot, and this was where the plotters fled to after it all went wrong in an attempt to raise a rebellion. One of the plotters was Robert Wintour of Huddington Court, here in Worcestershire....
- 28th October 2017
85 years ago today HRH Edward, Prince of Wales, visited Worcester to officially open the widened Worcester Bridge and the remodelled Cripplegate Park. Photos of this event, and the preceding engineering works, are contained in an archive deposit which has just been added to the online catalogue. Mr C I Carey Walker was the city...
- 12th October 2017
In May to July 2017 The Infirmary was awarded funding from Heritage Lottery Fund. They ran two programmes to engage young people with heritage from Worcestershire using Minecraft and LEGO, called Virtually Rebuilding Worcestershire’s Lost Buildings. One of the buildings they were looking at was Powick Asylum, and we helped the young people find out...
- 22nd September 2017
It is an important year in the history of the LGBT+ community as 2017 marks the 50th anniversary of the partial decriminalisation of male homosexuality in England and Wales. The first ever Worcestershire Pride takes place this Saturday, 23rd September, and will be a fantastic opportunity to embrace the diversity of our county and give visibility...
- 19th September 2017
As the Worcestershire Archive and Archaeology Service Book and Paper Conservator, I was recently contacted by a local organisation with a bit of a problem in some of their archives. A small number of parchment documents had been discovered that were very dry and hard, and impossible to open. Looking more like the dogs raw-hide...