WOIW two-monthly listing.
A new ‘What’s on in Worcestershire’ (WOIW), which gives a month-by-month schedule of the activities of our member organisations is issued to member organisation contacts each month.WOIW gives a full…
Two Day Conference
Saturday 6 April and Sunday 7 April 2024. REVISITING WORCESTERSHIRE’S PAST This is a conference organised by the University of Worcester and Worcestershire Historical Society and runs from 9.30 am…
New Local History Publications – Autumn 2021
Here are some recent local history publications, either general or fairly local to Worcestershire, that we have come across. We hope that they may be of interest to members: https://www.wlhf.org.uk/wlhf/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/LH-publications-Nov-2021.pdf…
WLHF Local History Competition 2022
Guidelines for assessing Local History Competition Entries A PDF of these rules can be found here: Each question carries a maximum mark of 10 points Judges: To be announced For…
WHLF Competitions 2020/22
Photography Plans for a photography competition in 2020 were interrupted by Covid, but will now be reinstated in 2022. The theme of the photo competition this year will be 'What…
Access to UK Census data
A message to WHLF from:Richard Rodger, FRHS, FAcSS, Professor Emeritus, University of Edinburgh. Dear ChairmanI am contacting you because I believe local and family history societies deserve better access to…
Day School and Local History Awards Report 2019
An excellent report by Diana Clutterbuck on the WHLF can be found here. (It is also included under the 'News' menu above.)
2019 Redditch Local History Society Exhibition
The 2019 RLHS Exhibition is taking place from 31st October to 24th November 2019 in the Gallery of the National Needle Museum at Forge Mill - B98 8HY This exhibition…
Alcester & District Local History Society – Newsletter October 2019
Here's the latest newsletter from the Alcester & District Local History Society.
Have you ancestors who served The Worcestershire Regiment?
We have had this information from the Mercian Regiment who are custodians of the archive collections of The Worcestershire Regiment (and its forebears). "We offer a specialist research enquiry service…
February News Update
A few news items which may be of interest to members Feckenham Forest History Society A new Feckenham Forester magazine is now in the shops, price £3.50, or available from…