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The third symposium in memory of Mark Girouard looks at women’s contributions to architectural history in Britain and Ireland, with sponsors including the IHBC.
Continue readingThe IHBC has launched its call to register ‘Interest’ in our new ‘Leaders in Learning for Practice Network’, for service leads in built and historic environment conservation-led learning & training programmes & courses, with resources allocated, advocacy a priority, and plans to be shaped by Network members.
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IHBC’s 2026 Day School, broadcasting from Newcastle on 19 June, boasts The Royal Town Planning Institute (RTPI) as our School ‘Friend’, offering reduced Virtual School rates to RTPI members as delegates while delegates will hear from former RTPI President Timothy David Crawshaw as he responds to a busy day of IHBC CPD.
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IHBC’s latest Council received impressively positive feedback, but was very busy, so this NewsBlog post spotlights a paper easily missed in this ‘exploration of conservation services’, our plans for a light-touch survey to shape our response the 3rd of our Parliamentary ‘5 Commitments to Help Heritage Skills in Conservation…’.
Continue readingThe Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) has featured a ‘Muslims in Real Estate’ take on how equity and access are best shaped through design decisions, not post-occupancy fixes.
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IHBC’s heritage business register HESPR – our Historic Environment Service Providers Recognition quality assurance scheme for heritage services – emails members weekly ‘News and Tender Alerts’, and this week features Designing Buildings (DB) on Spelling it out.
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Major safety concerns have been raised after youths were seen allegedly trying to trespass inside a historic building in Swindon just a month after it was set on fire, The Swindon Advertiser reports.
Continue readingThe Royal Town Planning Institute (RTPI) Cymru is urging the next Welsh Government to prioritise investment in the planning profession if it is to deliver on its ambitions for Wales.
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Three heritage funds have opened for Expressions of Interest (EoIs), including the new £92M Places of Worship Fund, as well as the second rounds of the Heritage at Risk Capital Fund and Heritage Revival Fund
Continue readingThe Engineering Construction Industry Training Board (ECITB) has launched a new digital learning ‘ecosystem’ inspired by the look and feel of 3D gaming environments.
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The City of London Corporation has approved the planning application for the Barbican Renewal Programme, securing the future of Europe’s largest multi-arts centre and safeguarding one of the world’s most significant Brutalist buildings.
Continue readingThe Gendered City, explores ‘feminist participatory urban practices and rethinking how cities are designed, experienced, and governed through a gender lens’.
Continue readingThe IHBC has launched its call to register ‘Interest’ in our new ‘Leaders in Learning for Practice Network’, for service leads in built and historic environment conservation-led learning & training programmes & courses, with resources allocated, advocacy a priority, and plans to be shaped by Network members.
Continue readingIHBC’s 2026 Day School, broadcasting from Newcastle on 19 June, boasts The Royal Town Planning Institute (RTPI) as our School ‘Friend’, offering reduced Virtual School rates to RTPI members as delegates while delegates will hear from former RTPI President Timothy David Crawshaw as he responds to a busy day of IHBC CPD.
Continue readingIHBC’s latest Council received impressively positive feedback, but was very busy, so this NewsBlog post spotlights a paper easily missed in this ‘exploration of conservation services’, our plans for a light-touch survey to shape our response the 3rd of our Parliamentary ‘5 Commitments to Help Heritage Skills in Conservation…’.
Continue readingWhat was the Festival of Britain, asks the RIBA as, billed as a ‘tonic for the nation’, it argues that the Festival of Britain was designed to lift the moral of post-war Britain.
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Since its establishment in 1997, Fife Historic Buildings Trust (FHBT) has helped deliver over £60 million in historic environment regeneration projects across Fife.
Continue readingThe IHBC’s heritage business register HESPR – our Historic Environment Service Providers Recognition quality assurance service – sends members exclusive ‘News and Tender Alerts’, with the Director’s tender taster for NewsBlog readers this week from an Historic Buildings Trust for repair etc of a Grade II (GII) Heritage at Risk resource, to 12/06/2026.
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The Scottish Crannog Centre are currently in the process of building the first of three Crannogs over the loch and we need your help!
Continue readingOur report, ‘Making the case for city architects’ sets out how embedding design expertise in combined authorities can help deliver the high-quality homes and places we need.
Continue readingEngland’s Historic Environment Forum (HEF) is calling for contributions to new annual report on heritage sector resilience, to 19 June.
Continue readingFreelancers (including sole traders and people working through their own limited company) make up a significant and growing proportion of the museums and heritage workforce and as Museums and Heritage Freelancers Network is setting up a branch of Prospect it wants to know ‘what matters to you….’.
Continue readingThe All Party Parliamentary Group(APPG) on Apprenticeships launches Call for Evidence: Inquiry Title: How can apprenticeships support the ambition of economic growth via the Industrial Strategy? Deadline for Submissions: 1st August 2026
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World Monuments Fund (WMF) is seeking proposals to join ‘Cultivating Resilience’, our signature program strengthening the ability of historic gardens and designed landscapes to adapt to the impacts of climate change.
Continue readingWritten by James White and Jeff Biggar, ‘Urban retrofit in Canadian cities: the adaptive reuse of offices into housing as a dual response to housing affordability and the climate crisis’ was is available online, adding new dimensions to the IHBC’s Newcastle 2026 School theme: ‘Adaptive Reuse’
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