Archive

In recent years, documents relating to the business of the Bromsgrove Court Leet have been moved from dusty lofts and boxes under desks to the archive department at The Hive for permanent preservation. The Court Leet is a manorial court, which began when the manorial system was introduced by William the Conqueror in which the...

Today we hear from one of the Redditch Military Service Tribunals Project Volunteers, Derek Coombes, who provides us with his perspective of records and the history of the Redditch Tribunals revealed through the research he undertook as part of our National Lottery Heritage funded project.

More and more people are looking for online name indexes to help them with their family history, or with house or local history. On our website we have several indexes with names which have created by our wonderful volunteers.   Our 12 miles of archives contain numerous names, which may be people you are interested...

We have fantastic volunteers, contributing the equivalent of around 450 days a year. They help us is so many ways, and we try to share the many varied volunteering roles they do on our blog each year, and we appreciate all they do. However we know they get a lot out of volunteering too, which...

We are looking for a volunteer to join our Redditch Military Tribunal project which will start in January 2020, supported by the National Lottery Heritage Fund to conclude our WW100 work. This project will carry out research into the records of the Military Service Tribunals held in Redditch during the First World War. Redditch Tribunal...

Volunteers contributed 3281 hours (444 days!) last year across the service and provide fantastic help in many different ways. Some have been volunteering with us longer than we can remember and we appreciate them so much. In most cases they are doing ‘value added’ work which we would not be able to do otherwise as part...

We are helping a local arts organisation with an exciting project and we are looking for volunteers to help groups delve into the past in April and May. Equal Vision CIC have been awarded money from Heritage Lottery Fund for “Hidden Histories of Worcester”, a project which aims to help local people to discover real...

** Please note that on 9 Jan we reached our number of volunteers. However Lucy has a waiting list for if anyone drops out**   Would you like to help with research about the River Severn for a major project? Would you like to find out more about using archives? As part of the Unlocking...

Ridge and furrow earthworks, the remains of former field systems, exist across Worcestershire. They are often overlaid by the straight boundaries of later inclosed fields and form an important part of the landscape character in Worcestershire and the identity of local areas.  The pressure for land for development and changes in agriculture in the second...

As Volunteers' Week draws to a close, here's an account of one of our young volunteer's work on our upcoming Ice Age exhibitions