FFHS Really Useful Bulletins
Are you a member of MFHS? If so, you might be interested to know that the bulletins issued by the Federation of Family History societies are stored on the members' area of this website for your perusal.
Meeting Report 1st March 2023
Our speaker at the March Meeting was Dr. Mike Jenkins, a retired medical doctor and amateur historian. He has been interested in the forms and diversity of place names for…
Join us for a walk around Barnards Green
History with a Gentle Walk … We will be meeting in person on Saturday 10th September 2022 for a walk through the area of Malvern known as Barnards Green. This…
New database available to members: WW1 Dead
Our projects team has been beavering away collecting and transcribing information about Malvern's WW1 dead from the memorials around Malvern. There are memorials in most of the churches plus the…
Handout from Dr Penny Walters’ Adoption Talk
If you are interested in tracing your family as an adopted person, this handout will be of use to you.
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…
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…