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- IHBC’s ‘Special Thanks’ to 2025’s Student Award entrants, as 49 seek prizes (to £500) & places at #IHBCNewcastle2026 17/10/2025
- IHBC welcomes Campaign for National Parks success as ‘plans to weaken protected landscapes duty quietly dropped’ 17/10/2025
- IHBC’s ‘Practice’ Signpost: Traditional and historic buildings – a new Retrofit British Standard, an update from IHBC’s John Edwards, with joint CPD webinar 14/11 17/10/2025
- IHBC’s ‘Director’s pick’ from HESPR’s £495K+ of weekly works: Welsh Council seeks team for urban hub, to 31/10 and c.£75K 17/10/2025
- IHBC features ‘Heritage from the doorstep’ (& ‘Evaluation’ signpost!): ‘History of the Pioneering Stockton and Darlington Railway’ via HE 17/10/2025
- National Audit Office: Weak controls and oversight blamed for faulty home installations under energy efficiency scheme 17/10/2025
- New UK Town of Culture competition to celebrate our national story 17/10/2025
- THA Call for Case Studies for Heritage Debate 2025, to 24/10 17/10/2025
- New Towns Taskforce: Report to government published 17/10/2025
- Communities to ‘seize control over high streets and restore pride’ 17/10/2025
- IHBC features ‘Heritage from the Global doorstep’: Creative Health – UK & Ireland State of the Sector Survey, to 31 October 17/10/2025
- 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
Daily Archives: 08/07/2022
IHBC Marsh Awards for 2022 (and #IHBC25) announced: ‘Retired’ to John Duncan (SC); ‘Learning’ shared by Leask Mackie & Jessica Burrows
Judges in the seventh year of the IHBC Marsh Charitable Trust Awards are delighted to announce the results of the 2022 Awards: The winner of the ‘Community Contributions by a Retired Member of the IHBC Award’ is John Duncan (Scotland … Continue reading
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IHBC welcomes HE Commissioners – appointed and reappointed – including Full IHBC member Nairita Chakraborty
The IHBC has greeted the various new appointments and reappointments by the Secretary of State of new Commissioners of Historic England, welcoming especially the appointment of IHBC member Nairita Chakraborty. image: Open Government Licence v3.0
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New IHBC CPD Circular out: Schools galore, and much more, from #IHBC25 to Swansea 2023
The IHBC’s new-styled, easy access CPD Circular is out, with School signposts back and forward, alongside events, research, awards and more, all in line with our 25th anniversary ambitions for IHBC25.
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IHBC welcomes FMP Architecture and Conservation to HESPR: IHBC’s register of quality-assured conservation and heritage practice
FMP Architecture and Conservation is the latest company to be accepted on to the IHBC conservation and heritage services ‘HESPR’ listing of heritage businesses that benefit from IHBC’s quality assurance.
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IHBC’s HESPR pick from £400K+ of works this week: Council seeks consultancy for Masterplan, Heritage Assessment etc. due 15/07, £120K
The IHBC’s heritage business register HESPR – our Historic Environment Service Providers Recognition quality assurance service – emails members weekly ‘News and Tender Alerts’, and the IHBC Director’s pick for this week is a call from a Council for a … Continue reading
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IHBC features Heritage from the doorstep’: Plans to breathe new life into listed Derby building rejected
Plans for one of Derby’s oldest buildings to become a nursery have been refused over concerns the demolition of a surrounding historic wall would ‘harm the building’s status’, reports The Derby Telegraph. image: for illustration purposes only – JBel, Public domain, … Continue reading
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Historic Environment (Wales) Bill introduced to Senedd Cymr
Cadw’s latest Historic Environment Update 18 reports on the new Historic Environment (Wales) Bill, now introduced into the Senedd Cymru.
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Ireland’s Our Rural Future: New funding stream to support LA purchase of vacant and derelict buildings for community use
Ireland’s Minister for Rural and Community Development, Heather Humphreys, announced a new funding stream to support Local Authorities (LAs) to purchase vacant buildings that could be converted and developed for community use.
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£5.5million awarded to conserve cathedrals and churches across the UK by the National Lottery Heritage Fund
Places of worship and community hubs are benefitting from £5.5million of Lottery awards to help conserve cathedrals and churches across the UK. image: for illustration purposes only – Gloucester Cathedral – Joanna Theobald
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Georgia Guidestones: ‘America’s Stonehenge’ demolished after blast
A granite monument in rural Georgia has been demolished for safety reasons after being damaged in a blast. image: By Quentin Melson – Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=118062388
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