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Here is the second instalment of Emma Heatherley’s post detailing her time at WAAS on a university work experience placement: I spent a lot of time working with the User Services team on level two of The Hive, mainly on the ‘Explore the Past’ desk shadowing the Archivists and Archive Assistants as they carried out different roles...

Over the last few weeks Worcestershire Archive and Archaeology Service has had the pleasure of hosting a 100 hour work experience placement for Emma Heatherley, a student from Newman University, Birmingham. During her time here Emma had the chance to get an insight into the wide range of roles that take place behind the scenes in...

This week’s Treasure has been chosen by David Everett, one of our long-serving regular customers and a member of the Friends of Worcestershire Archives. David came across the following item nestled amongst the records of Stone parish whilst undertaking research in the Original Archive Area at The Hive. The particularly ghoulish illustrations that accompany these documents make them quite fitting for...

As part of the Worcester World War One Hundred project we are producing resources for schools to help them with a local focus to looking at the World war One.    The first is based around war memorials and tracing soldiers, which many schools are undertaking. In the pack are lesson plans and ideas. The...

On Monday 10th November we are running a workshop about World War I in the Archives here at The Hive. Although there have always been people using us to research WWI soldiers and local places during the war, there has been a large increase recently due to the centenary, prompting many individuals and groups to investigate...

On 15th October we attended a celebratory event at the Houses of Parliament to celebrate the first 14 UK Archive Services to become accredited under the new Archive Service Accreditation scheme.  Worcestershire was one of the first 6 archive services to become accredited in November 2013, and one of the first 3 local authority archive...

‘All good adventures begin with a map’, according to the saying. We have thousands of maps here in our collections, and this workshop will help you with using them for your adventures in research. Ordnance Survey, Tithe, Enclosure, New Domesday, Estate, Geological, GOAD and definitive maps are some of the types we’ll be looking at....

Eagle-eyed readers may have noticed our shiny new address for this Blog – www.explorethepast.co.uk. All old links should redirect to this new address so we hope the transition is smooth, but if anyone comes across any problems please let us know by popping a comment below. If you want to keep up-to-date with all of...

This week’s Treasures have been chosen by Robin Whittaker – our former Archives Manager from our days as Worcestershire Record Office, based at the County Hall branch on Spetchley Road. Although he is now retired, Robin still frequents our Original Archive Area at The Hive, both as a volunteer and as a private researcher. Here, Robin tells...

If you go into the new creative learning quarter of the Heart of Worcestershire College’s new campus, just by The Hive, you’ll see the local history of the site marked in a number of ways.  We’ve been working with the college over the summer to incorporate the history of the local area in the design of the interior. The...