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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: 12/07/2022
#IHBCAberdeen2022 SM update (Part 1): A first digital collation (and Wakelet!), with special thanks to our top 10 School Tweeters – and a peek into our visits and tours
Alison McCandlish, IHBC’s lead consultant for Social Media (SM) at our 2022 Aberdeen School (15-18/06), has collated participation data in this first of 3 School SM posts, covering our tour days, with the IHBC MarketPlace, and blended Day School to … Continue reading
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SAHGB-IHBC Heritage Research Award 2022 celebrates ‘research… in heritage and conservation practice’: Closes 31/08
The IHBC is delighted to announce the 2022 joint Award with the Society of Architectural Historians of Great Britain (SAHGB) celebrating ‘the quality of architectural-historical research.. in heritage and conservation practice’ is open for submissions, closing 31 August.
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IHBC Signpost: The Engine Shed’s Technical Paper 36: Architecture and Health in Traditional Buildings
This Technical Paper discusses how different building features such as windows were designed to enable the proper ventilation of buildings, and considers how good ventilation can help to prevent airborne diseases etc.
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IHBC’s HESPR ‘Special Interest News’: Building on Battersea restoration
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 Building on the restored Art Deco control room at Battersea … Continue reading
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IHBC features ‘Heritage from the doorstep’: Hutton’s Rock, Salisbury Crags, Edinburgh 3D model
Historic Environment Scotland (HES) flags the model developed by Sketchfab for Hutton’s Rock, Salisbury Crags, Edinburgh 3D model.
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England’s Historic Environment Overview highlights sector achievements for 2021-22
England’s Historic Environment Overview… (Spring 2022) has been launched, part of Historic England’s (HE) ‘Heritage Counts’ suite of data and analysis for 2021-22.
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Social Housing Decarbonisation Fund: Wave 2
The Social Housing Decarbonisation Fund is for use by local authorities etc. to improve the energy performance of their social homes though policy is still under development.
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Survey of Scotland’s local civic and heritage groups
Scottish Civic Trust has built on its survey of how the past two years drastically changed how Scotland’s civic and heritage groups engage with audiences.
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Dundee landmark Finlathen Viaduct opens after £1m restoration
The £1 million restoration of a landmark bridge over the Dighty Burn in Dundee, Finlathen Viaduct, has recently seen it re-open to the public. image: Dundee City Council website
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Restoration of world’s oldest Hythe Pier railway begins
Work to replace the track on the Hythe Pier railway – the oldest pier railway in the world – has begun. image: By Geni – Photo by user:geni, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=53697796
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Here’s How To Time Travel With Google Maps Street View
As part of its 15-year anniversary semi-celebration of Street View, Google is taking us all back in time — metaphorically speaking – as a new feature lets you jump back and forth between 2007 (when Street View was first launched) … Continue reading
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