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Displays for the Three Counties Traditional Orchard Project are now up in Evesham and Tenbury libraries. The project has been raising awareness of the heritage of orchards in Worcestershire, Herefordshire and Gloucestershire, as well as helping local people to look after and restore surviving orchards. Historical  research was an important part of the project and...

Get up close to one of the famous Despatch Boxes held aloft by the Chancellor of the Exchequer in a one day exhibition about Stanley Baldwin 2017 is the 150th anniversary of the birth of Stanley Baldwin, the three time Prime Minister from Worcestershire. To coincide with this we will be display documents from his...

  Lavinia Talbot kept a diary from her teens to old age.  She regularly recorded her thoughts and feelings about her life and events unfolding around her.  Her three sons served in the forces during World War I, as did the children of her wider circle of family and friends, so her wartime diaries include...

It has now been 10 years since Worcestershire, and much of the country, was hit by severe flooding. June 2007 had already been very wet, with minor flooding, and there were some additional floods early on in July too. On St Swithun’s day (15th July) it rained hard, which tradition suggests may have given some indication...

Worcestershire Archive Service is pleased to be able to relaunch two of our previously created resource packs.  These packs were originally put together in response to an emerging interest in Black and Asian history in Worcestershire, but later developed to encompass a much broader view, containing aspects of many different cultures, ethnicities and backgrounds.  We have...

  What do you picture when you think of a typical Victorian father?  The stereotype is often someone stern, severe and distant.  That may have been true of some Victorian fathers, but the reality was often quite different.  There were plenty of kind Victorian fathers who were devoted to their children, spent time with them...

We are thrilled to announce that we have been voted 2017 Record-Keeping Service of the Year! Part of the Worcestershire Archive Service team This award is part of the Archives and Records Association (ARA) Excellence Awards and aims to recognise the achievements of services across the archive sector. The award is a testament to the...

We have recently completed a project funded by The National Archives to update and computerize the Manorial Documents Register for Worcestershire.  Come celebrate the launch of the database with us at The Hive on Saturday, 22 April, and learn more about these fascinating records and what they can tell us about Worcestershire’s past.  There will...

We are pleased to announce that, following a recent assessment, Worcestershire Archive and Archaeology Service has retained its Accredited Archive status! Archive Accreditation, which recognises good practice in all areas of archive service delivery, was introduced in 2013.  We were pioneers of the scheme, taking part in the pilot and then becoming one of the...

Regular visitors to the Indexes and Guides section of the Worcestershire Archive and Archaeology Service website may have noticed that the index to our Quarter Sessions papers has grown since Christmas, with the addition of an index to the 1854 papers.  This is an increase of over 2,000 entries, now searchable online. This is entirely...