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Abberley and District Young Farmers’ Clubs – From Calf Clubs to a National...
Are you a Worcestershire-based Farming Club or Society? Do you have records that chart the history of rural life or activities in Worcestershire? If so, we would love to hear from you! As we explore in...
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Photographing Worcestershire
Photographs offer a visual record of the history of the past. Seeing what people, places and communities once looked like can help us trace changes overtime. They can even reveal the history of the...
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Researching Your Worcestershire Family History is Now even Easier
People researching their family history now have access to more than two million records detailing baptisms, marriages, and burials in the county. Over five centuries worth of records have been...
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Protecting Feckenham’s moated manor site
Feckenham Manorial Moated Site is a nationally significant scheduled monument. Despite this, it has been on an ‘at risk’ heritage register – until now, that is. Owned and managed by Redditch Borough...
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A life lived in spiritual devotion: Frances Ridley Havergal, Part One
Recently catalogued deposits of books, family sketchbooks, music, testimonials and presentation volumes, as well as biographical texts, shed light on the English religious poet and hymnwriter, and her...
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A life lived in spiritual devotion: Frances Ridley Havergal, Part Two
More from the recently catalogued deposit highlights Havergal’s impressive body of work, despite a life cut short. If you missed Part One, find it here. ‘Writing is praying with me: for I never seem...
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Redditch New Town Archives: Planning & Design
Planning for a New Town Unlike most other New Towns, Redditch had a rich history, dating from the year 1140 when Cistercian monks founded Bordesley Abbey in the Arrow Valley, through to its more recent...
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Redditch New Town Archives: Industry and Employment
Attracting Industry Part of the Master Plan was to attract a variety of industry to the town. The set-up of large factories were negotiated together with land, and allocation of new houses to key...
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Travels in Time and through Space with Arthur Henry Whinfield
One of the great things about my job as an Archives Assistant is that I get to review a wide range of collections, whether it’s to assist researchers in the Searchroom, to undertake cataloguing and...
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Redditch New Town Archives: Sports, Promotion and Leisure
Within one of our large Commission for the New Town collections, there are c9500 photographs, reports and other items from the Development Corporation Technical Library. We just love showing them to...
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The Bailey Bridge
Hailed as a key invention to come out of World War II, Bailey bridges allowed waterways and steep drops to be crossed quickly and easily. Have you spotted any around Worcestershire? Help us record...
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The Bromsgrove Court Leet: A court and project 400+ years in the making!
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....
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