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- Context 184 under the spotlight: IHBC’s accessible CPD for Conservation Professionals, featuring Past President Mike Brown’s Vox Pop 14/10/2025
- IHBC’s Communications and Outreach Strategy 2025-28 now online 14/10/2025
- IHBC’s Annual School ‘Save the Date’ notice & Home Page launch: IHBC’s 2026 Newcastle School, 18-20 June, on ‘Adaptive Reuse’ & up to 20 hours CPD – accessible, interdisciplinary, cost-effective 14/10/2025
- IHBC’s ‘Heritage from the doorstep’: GII Coventry Baths demolition approved by Historic England 14/10/2025
- Government responds to Parliamentary Report on Home Retrofitting with £13.2bn programme 14/10/2025
- HH: Lack of support from Scottish Government threatening heritage tourism sector 14/10/2025
- People across the country set to benefit from £4M boost to improve accessibility to arts and culture: Open to 14/11 14/10/2025
- THA’s Heritage and Placemaking Survey and Call for Case Studies – they want to hear from you… by 17 October 14/10/2025
- BSRIA: Wellbeing in Buildings (TG 10/2025) 14/10/2025
- ‘Remaking the relationship between citizens and the built environment’, a blog via Demos 14/10/2025
- IHBC features ‘Heritage from the Global doorstep’: Heritage home in Canada demolished despite Heritage Act 14/10/2025
- Career conscious & in conservation? IHBC’s ‘Jobs etc.’ reaches across disciplines, levels & sectors, from charities – led here by Scotland & CEOs – to Officers (LG) Inspectors (HE) & more 10/10/2025
- Context 184 under the spotlight: IHBC’s accessible CPD for Conservation Professionals, offers insights into ‘The world of generative AI’ 10/10/2025
- IHBC welcomes Gardens Trust report into the role of historic parks and gardens in the 21st century 10/10/2025
- IHBC joins 33 leading organisations calling for £6.8M in urgent funding to support Planning Schools 10/10/2025
- IHBC launches FREE ‘Events Calendar’ submission form – with potential for inclusion in our celebrated monthly CPD Circular 10/10/2025
- IHBC’s ‘Heritage from the doorstep’ (& ‘Management’ signpost): AJ on legal challenge to Barbican demolition… which ‘can proceed’ 10/10/2025
- Chancellor appoints infrastructure and planning adviser to clear path for new investments… to ‘do what it takes to get Britain building’ 10/10/2025
- Scotland’s ‘Properties and Collections Strategy: Towards Sustainable Stewardship’ consultation draft out, open to 23/01 10/10/2025
- £214m new funding for Welsh communities to improve neighbourhoods and restore pride 10/10/2025
- RICS calls for expressions of interest for pilot programmes of new professional pathways 10/10/2025
- RTPI launches five-year strategy to elevate planning: Empower 2030 10/10/2025
- IHBC features ‘Heritage from the Global doorstep’: Donovan Rypkema & Heritage Strategies International seek input on ‘measuring in Arts, Culture, and Heritage’ 10/10/2025
- Presidential invite to IHBC’s ‘members-only’ online Council Wednesday 8 October, 4.30pm, on ‘Heritage Skills & the Conservation Professional’, Charter explorations & more 07/10/2025
- IHBC’s CPD Blog from #IHBCShrewsbury2025: Some ‘Academic Reflections on the IHBC Annual School… and participation’ from Dr Alison McCandlish IHBC, University of Glasgow 07/10/2025
Daily Archives: 06/10/2020
IHBC’s latest Membership Matters out now, with ‘Good news and sad…’
IHBC members and colleagues who are signed-up to the service will have received the current issue of our Membership Matters – previously the Member Eletter– offering updates on recent trustee meetings and providing more context on our NewsBlog service updates.
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IHBC’s HESPR ‘Special Interest Sector News’ pick of the week: Dezeen on Goldfinger’s Glenkerry House
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 Dezeen … Continue reading
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Letter from DCMS Culture Secretary on HM Government position on contested heritage
On 22 September, the Culture Secretary Oliver Dowden wrote to DCMS Arm’s Length Bodies to outline the Government’s position on contested heritage, noting that ‘the Government does not support the removal of statues or other similar objects’.
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A third of National Trust properties linked to ‘colonial histories’, finds review
The National Trust has acknowledged that some of its collections can ‘cause offence and distress’, as it publishes an interim review into links between its properties and the slave trade.
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NI Heritage Statistics as recorded on 31 March 2019 now published
The Northern Ireland (NI) Heritage Statistics document was recorded on 31 March 2019 and sets out how Northern Ireland’s historic environment contributes to our prosperity, progress and personality. It demonstrates, with reference to case studies, that our heritage has a … Continue reading
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Liverpool Mayor blocks £5m zip wire plan
Liverpool Mayor Joe Anderson has made a dramatic intervention into the zip wire row which has divided people, politicians and businesses in the city. image: for illustration purposes only – Dave Chetwin
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Victorian Society’s Top 10 Most Endangered Buildings list 2020
The Victorian Society’s Top 10 Endangered Buildings list highlights at-risk heritage all over the country in the hope of finding new solutions, with calls also to support the Society as it offers £10 off annual membership for the first year … Continue reading
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DCMS report: ‘Productivity and the Arts, Heritage and Museums Sectors’
Department for Digital Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) has published a report that sets out a conceptual framework for understanding and reviews the evidence base around productivity in the arts, heritage and museum sectors.
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Flat conversion plans approved for listed building on Aberdeen’s granite mile
The empty upper floors of a C-listed granite building on Aberdeen’s main thoroughfare are to be converted into flats.
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Public in the dark on economic impact of major infrastructure: YouGov
A new survey conducted by YouGov on behalf of GLIL Infrastructure, a £1.8bn investment fund backed by UK local government pension schemes, has revealed that the British public are in the dark about the economic impact of several recent and … Continue reading
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Global view on coastal flooding: Could Threaten Millions and Cost Trillions by 2100, new study finds
The climate crisis may usher in a new level of global economic catastrophe and human suffering as extreme weather worsens and coastal flooding intensifies, reports a new study that found that extreme weather will make coastal areas dangerous places to … Continue reading
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