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…
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…