1 Nurturing Worcestershire’s Treasures Issue 4: September 2012 MODERN HISTORY Worcester’s Future Rests on Firm Foundaons as New Heritage Showcases Open in the City Sarah Baker Looks Inside THE HIVE Laura Butland Reports on the Opening of THE INFIRMARY Also in this Issue: New Jubilee Family Garden at the Elgar Birthplace Museum Conservaon Research at the George Marshall Medical Museum The trainees’ Swap Shop at the University Research Collecons and Hurd Library Royal Worcester Porcelain at the Anques for Everyone Fair Work Experience Students Join the Cathedral Library This issue was edited and produced by Tamsin Rowe, Worcester Cathedral Library
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Nurturing Worcestershire’s Treasures Issue 4: September 2012
MODERN HISTORY
Worcester’s Future Rests on Firm Foundations as New Heritage Showcases Open in the City Sarah Baker Looks Inside THE HIVE Laura Butland Reports on the Opening of THE INFIRMARY
Also in this Issue: New Jubilee Family Garden at the Elgar Birthplace Museum Conservation Research at the George Marshall Medical Museum The trainees’ Swap Shop at the University Research Collections and Hurd Library Royal Worcester Porcelain at the Antiques for Everyone Fair Work Experience Students Join the Cathedral Library
This issue was edited and produced by Tamsin Rowe, Worcester Cathedral Library
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The Hive
B ack in June the five trainees were lucky
enough to be invited to the Hive’s ‘pre-
opening’ party.
We were excited to get a sneak preview of such an
outstanding building – the first joint Public and
University Library in Europe. Having sampled the wine
and cupcakes at the party, which paid tribute to the
people who ‘had made it all happen’, we spent a
pleasant hour browsing the new library.
We were specifically on the look-out for the display
cases situated at the ends of the bookshelves on Level 3.
Earlier in the year heritage organisations across
Worcestershire were contacted by Deborah Fox from
Worcester City Museum and asked whether they would
like to contribute an image, object and quote to the
Hive. Naturally we all jumped at the opportunity to be
represented in such a forward thinking and innovative
public building.
If you have visited the Hive you may have noticed these
attractive and informative displays. All the trainees’
organisations are represented, with items including: a
collection of postcards found in the Infirmary, a Royal
Worcester plate, books by G.A. Henty from the
University Research Collection, a manuscript of the
prelude to Elgar’s ‘Dream of Gerontius’ from the
Birthplace Museum and a copy of a fourteenth-century
lease from Worcester Cathedral Library.
If you haven’t yet been to the Hive we would thoroughly
recommend a visit. Don’t forget to look out for the
heritage displays!
By Sarah Baker
Elgar Birthplace Museum
Above: The University of Worcester Research
Collections Case. Photograph by Laura Butland.
Below: The Elgar Birthplace Museum Case.
Photograph by Sarah Baker.
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T he past few months at The Infirmary have
been very busy, but also very exciting, as the
new Museum is now open to the public! We
had our first preview event on the 19th July,
with an opportunity for former staff and patients to
come and have a look at the exhibition before a full
opening to the public on the 21st August. The space
looks fantastic, with all the objects that the trainees
helped us to pack and move back in April proudly
mounted and displayed for everyone to enjoy. The
Science and Technology area which I worked on is
almost finished, with just a few finishing touches to the
multimedia interactives still to be finalised. Visitors now
have the chance to play with a 3D model of the human
body, investigate the microbes that cause infectious
diseases, and learn more about the genetics that
determine what we look like and how we behave.
We’re now open Monday to Friday, from 9am-5pm,
please come and have a look for yourselves!
By Laura Butland
The Infirmary
Opening of The Infirmary
Above: Staff and visitors enjoying the displays at the new Infirmary exhibition.
Elgar Birthplace Museum 4th - 24th September Elgar's Worcestershire: An exhibition of paintings by two well-known local artists, Peter Wale and Ruth Boothby. Normal museum admission and opening applies. 9th October The Gallic Muse: One of Dr Donald Hunt's illustrated talks on significant French music of the 20th Century. Are we still suspicious of the artistic outpourings of our neighbours and if so, why? Includes refreshments. Tickets £6. Museum of Royal Worcester The Big Draw—Printing Workshop with Jose Santos 16th October 2012 10am-12pm & 1pm-3pm 19th October 2012 10am-12pm & 1pm-3pm Create your very own monotype print under the guidance of Jose Santos, a Mexican fine artist specialising in printmaking. Participants can take inspiration from a selection of magnificent Royal Worcester copper plates dating back to the nineteenth century which draw on the English landscapes beloved of the finest engravers of Worcester Porcelain.
Below: 223 Year-old Diary of John Flight, one of the founders of
Cathedral Library Welcomes Work Experience Students
W e have been joined by two work experience
students in the Cathedral Library this summer.
Matthias Hans studies History and English at
the University of Bonn. He is producing a
series of blog posts on English Reformation monarchs, as well as
learning some of the duties of a historic librarian and archivist.
Grace Bradley has just completed her AS Levels at The King’s
School Worcester. Grace is very keen on history and was
delighted to get ‘hands on’ with the rare books. She has been
producing a display for us on the Book of Common Prayer,
which is now up in the south nave aisle. She is also gaining
experience of accessioning new books and answering public
enquiries.
By Tamsin Rowe, Worcester Cathedral Library Above: Matthias Hans in the Library
Nurturing Worcestershire’s Treasures is a Heritage Lottery Funded scheme in partnership with Worcestershire County Council and the University of Worcester.
Visit the project webpage at www.worcestershiretreasures.wordpress.com