List of Local History Books Updated
Our Librarian and Programme Secretary have spent time scouring the local bookshops and online sources to find the latest titles of relevance to the society. They have been added to…
Barnards Green Blacksmith Video
Malvern Civic Society commissioned a video of Barnards Green Forge. It's published on YouTube, so we have linked to it here - well worth a look! The forge was built…
A book by one of our members
Rose Arno has published a book which is now available from Aspect Design. It is called "Not the front stairs ; A history of Douglas House School, Malvern from 1948…
Important changes at Ancestry
Ancestry have updated their terms and conditions as of 3rd August 2021. The changes have important implications for any information and images that you post on their website and Ancestry's…
Malvern Memories Wanted!
We have been asked by two different projects whether our members, or visitors to the website, might have information to contribute. Both are social history projects about events or places…
Download from Dr Penny Walters’ talk
Download from talk on Ethical Dilemmas in Genealogy - members only
The availability of census data
This letter has been received from Richard Roger at the University of Edinburgh via the Worcestershire Local History Forum. Dear Chairman I am contacting you because I believe local and…
Changes at Worcestershire Archives
There have been some significant changes at the Worcestershire Archives, the Hive, and related services. We have received the following communication from the Archives service. Note: we are now in…
One of the churches for which we have record sets of MIs
MIs now come as part of membership
We have to date documented the Monumental (or Memorial) Inscriptions (MIs) for 5 parishes and are planning to do more. In the past, these have been available to buy at…
More titles added to our Members’ Library
Many thanks to all our members who have been sorting through their books in lockdown and released many useful books into our library. These are books that local members can…
MFHS meetings move online
Although we had hoped to return to live meetings in the Autumn, this has proved impossible. This is due to both continuing uncertainty of whether such meetings would be allowed…
When making contact with us, please check your email address
We love getting messages and queries from people and always try and reply within a day or so. As we are all volunteers, we can't necessarily reply immediately but we…