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Christmas is a time for charitable giving, and previous years we’ve highlighted St Thomas day Charities and the Robin Breakfast as examples. The Coventry Family of Croome used to hand out beef and bread to their tenants each Christmas Eve, as shown in these photos from the Croome archive held here in The Hive. Lord...

This week Mike Glyde, Historic Environment Planning Officer, has chosen to highlight how Worcestershire’s crop marks can reveal the history buried beneath us: As a general rule, most archaeological remains lie buried and unseen beneath our feet.  It is hidden from view, passing away the decades, slowly fading away. But the past is not always...

This week our Treasure is brought to you by Teresa Jones, Senior Archive Assistant, who has chosen a book from our Local Studies Collection of reference books, which are held on Level 2 of The Hive. Here Teresa tells us more about how the book she has chosen inspired her to document her own piece...

Today we bring you a guest blog post from Joe Hawkins, Head of Landscape at Hagley, in which he appeals for help from our readers in aiding their restoration programme through the sharing of their images of the Park: George Lyttelton’s eighteenth century park at Hagley was in its day, considered amongst the greatest of...