An archivist's introduction to the research guides designed to help you through the archive collections.

It’s all change at the South West Heritage Trust with a new Chief Executive having been appointed to lead the charity in the New Year.

In the culmination of a decades long project over 73,700 names have been added to the searchable name indexes, part of the Somerset Archives online catalogue.

We are pleased to announce that both the Devon and Somerset Archives and Local Studies Services have been awarded accredited status by The National Archives.

A very rare Early Medieval brooch, that lay hidden for many centuries, is going on display at the Museum of Somerset.

The Museum of Somerset welcomed record-breaking numbers of visitors this summer.

A deposit of nine watercolours provides an informative and visually attractive guide to the streetscape of Victorian Exeter.

Isabella Gifford (1825-1891) was a Somerset botanist who specialised in seaweeds. A small selection of her botanical specimens is on display now at the Museum of Somerset.

Discover Somerset Council's project to breathe new life into a stunning relic of the county's proud manufacturing past.

John Booker reflects on his last ten years of volunteering.

75 years on from the foundation of the NHS we look back health care in Devon and records held within the archives.

The Huyshe family archive is an important source of information relating to the management of the rural parishes and estates in Devon and the South West.