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- IHBC welcome SAHGB’s new Colvin Special Award 2025, celebrating editors of The Pevsner Architectural Guides 16/12/2025
- IHBC issues formal notice for 2026 AGM, online on 7 January 2026, from 5.30pm (with special presentation!) for 6pm start 16/12/2025
- IHBC updates on ‘5 Commitments to Help Heritage Skills in Conservation’: Check out our web hub, with video & feedback, and help reduce damage to both health and heritage 16/12/2025
- IHBC warmly welcomes PCO approval to Petition for Charter 16/12/2025
- IHBC’s ‘Professional’ Signpost: How to get started in sharing knowledge and expertise on Designing Buildings 16/12/2025
- IHBC features ‘Heritage from the doorstep’: Hotspur Press will rise from the ashes as developers issue promise for fire-ravaged mill 16/12/2025
- Videogame to help protect Nottingham Cathedral and other heritage buildings: ‘Pugin’s Revival’ despite ‘structural ‘monsters’’ 16/12/2025
- UK Heritage Pulse Spotlight: Operational use of Artificial Intelligence 16/12/2025
- Public appointment: Members appointed to Historic Environment Scotland 16/12/2025
- HHBT to continue its work in the Highlands as part of SHBT 16/12/2025
- RIBA responds to Environmental Audit Committee report on sustainable housing growth 16/12/2025
- IHBC features ‘Heritage from the global doorstep’– WMF & EH receive grant for next phase of Coastal Connections Programme 16/12/2025
- IHBC issues formal notice to all IHBC Members for 2026 AGM, online on 7 January 2026, from 5.30pm (with special presentation!) for 6pm start 13/12/2025
- IHBC welcomes Vice President Torsten Haak as Guest Judge for 2025 Student Award: Selecting next ‘Gus Astley’ winner, to receive £500 + Newcastle School place, 18-20 June 2026 13/12/2025
- IHBC Toolbox’s latest Guidance Note update now out: ‘Local Planning Authorities in England on Consulting the National Amenity Societies’ 13/12/2025
- IHBC Signpost: DB the Construction Wiki Temporary Structures 13/12/2025
- IHBC features ‘Heritage from the doorstep’: AI-powered nimbyism could grind UK planning system to a halt 13/12/2025
- Government launches call for submissions to UK’s first national inventory of Intangible Cultural Heritage (ICH) – ‘living Heritage – open to 27/03 13/12/2025
- UK Heritage Pulse: Spotlight on Heritage Crime 13/12/2025
- UK State of the Trades: a Report on the current UK Trade Landscape 13/12/2025
- RIBA Business Benchmarking Report 2025 issued 13/12/2025
- IHBC features ‘Heritage from the global doorstep 2: ‘Europa?Nostra on new Culture Compass for Europe – ‘When Culture wins, Europe wins’ 13/12/2025
- IHBC’s Context 185 under the spotlight: Accessible CPD for Conservation Professionals, featuring Morwenna Slade IHBC on ‘Successful solar generation in the historic environment’ 09/12/2025
- IHBC Supporter Surgery for aspiring Affiliates: Have you registered yet? 11 December, 1pm (IHBC CPD too!) 09/12/2025
- Career conscious & in conservation? IHBC’s ‘Jobs etc.’ services spans disciplines, levels & sectors, linked by interdisciplinary conservation practice standards delivering public benefit 09/12/2025
Daily Archives: 01/09/2020
New IHBC application support offers free ‘Virtual MATE’ sessions: General booking open – targeted group sessions to come
As in-person IHBC membership support events – our free Membership Application Training Events (MATE) sessions – were cancelled due to the pandemic, the IHBC has now opened booking for a series of online ‘Virtual MATE’ sessions geared to general practitioners, … Continue reading
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IHBC’s HESPR ‘Special Interest Sector News’ pick of the week: Covid-19 Community Memorial Design Competition, closing 02/11
The 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’, with notices from across the development sector’s publications, and this week features a … Continue reading
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IHBC features ‘Heritage from the doorstep’: Turnchapel in uproar over revised bid for ‘huge shed’ at Plymouth beauty spot
A revised bid for a ‘huge shed’, an industrial unit, planned for opposite the historic terrace of homes overlooking Turnchapel Wharf and Plymouth Sound, is provoking controversial, reports PlymouthLive.
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IHBC’s Virtual CPD Boost: Looking at virtual heritage experiences? Check out the virtual tour of Frida Kahlo’s Blue House, free
If you are looking at online experiences of heritage resources, why not ‘Take a Virtual Tour of Frida Kahlo’s Blue House Free Online’. image:.museofridakahlo.org
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Irish Climate Change Plan Struck Down by Court- ‘Not enough detail’
The Irish Government has been forced to strengthen its climate mitigation plan following the Irish Supreme Court ruling in favour of campaigners indicating that a more ambitious strategy is required.
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HES survey on impact of COVID-19: Stage 3
Historic Environment Scotland (HES) has moved into phase three of the Scottish Government’s route map out of current lockdown, and is looking to hear from businesses, organisations and community groups again.
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Philip Webb Award entries invited, with submissions closing 14 September
Entries are now invited for the 2020 Philip Webb Award, while the submissions will close at 5pm on 14 September 2020.
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£9.5m retrofit scheme to reduce Wales’ social housing carbon footprint
Wales has launched a new £9.5m programme to reduce the carbon footprint of existing social housing, make energy bills more manageable and provide new job opportunities.
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One in three jobs could go at the Bletchley Park Trust
One in three jobs are at risk at The Bletchley Park Trust, which oversees work to remember the contribution of British codebreakers during the Second World War. image: Bletchley Park website
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Membership of England’s Planning Taskforce announced
Details are available of the taskforce of experts who have offered their time and expert advice as England has developed proposals for planning reform are available. image: Open Government Licnece v3.0
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SAHGB shortlists for the Alice Davis Hitchcock Medallion and the Colvin Prize now out
The shortlists for two of the most important prizes in architectural history – the Alice Davis Hitchcock Medallion and the Colvin Prize – have been revealed by the Society of Architectural Historians of Great Britain (SAHGB).
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TrailTale is an app for discovering new heritage cities, towns and villages places in Great Britain
TrailTale is an app for discovering new places and interesting points in Great Britain, tied especially to heritage cities, towns and villages.
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