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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: 22/07/2022
IHBC’s new Context (172) on your doorstep in June & online now: Interrogating ‘Regulations and Codes’ in our #IHBC25 anniversary
The new issue of the IHBC’s journal, Context No. 172 takes as its theme ’Regulations and Codes, looking at how they ‘have shaped and are shaping the historic environment.’
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Links to #IHBCAberdeen2022 Day School Recordings & CPD Certs now issued: Sign up (from £25+VAT) still open for new delegates
The IHBC has sent all current Aberdeen School delegates links to access the broadcasts of the #IHBCAberdeen 2022 Day School – if you are missing yours let us know, while anyone else can still sign up HERE to access the … Continue reading
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IHBC welcomes WSP’s HP&P Team to HESPR: IHBC’s register of quality-assured conservation and heritage practices
The WSP Heritage Planning & Placemaking (HP&P) Team is the latest company to be accepted on to the IHBC conservation and heritage services ‘HESPR’ listing, of heritage businesses to benefit from IHBC’s quality assurance.
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REMINDER: IHBC’s Gus Astley Student Award closes 31/08 – £500 + free 2023 School place for #IHBCSwansea2023!
The IHBC’s celebrated annual Gus Astley Student Award has been launched for this academic year, closing on 31 August 2022, so if you have coursework from ANY UK taught course – under-graduate or post-graduate, from 2021 OR 2022 –submit it … Continue reading
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#IHBC25 Notice: IHBC’s personal guidance for Branches and volunteers on 25th anniversary initiatives, funding and more
IHBC Support Officer Jude Wheeler has written to Branches to offer guidance on National Office support for locally-led ideas and initiatives that mark the IHBC’s 25th anniversary, with all projects to be commenced before April 2023.
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Reminder: IHBC CPD Circular out – Schools galore, and much more, from #IHBC25 to #IHBCSwansea2023
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’s Historic Harbours Working Group signpost: Heritage Harbours Joint Statement and more
The IHBC’s Historic Harbours Working Group (HHWG) has noted the Historic National Historic Ships UK, Historic England and the Maritime Heritage Trust Joint Statement on ‘Heritage Harbours’, a project to ‘help connect the public to the UK’s maritime past. image: … Continue reading
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IHBC features ‘Heritage from the (ecclesiastical) doorstep’: Listing ‘radical’ English Cathedral may signal change in attitude
The Catholic News Agency has explored possible implications in the listing of the ‘radical’ Brentwood Cathedral. image: Historic England Archive
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Heritage Fund launches Heritage Innovation Fund
The Heritage Fund has launched I Heritage Innovation Fund to support projects that explore, test and grow new ways of working across the heritage workforce.
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BSI’s PAS 9980:2022 Fire risk appraisal out: Exec summary available free
The Executive Summary of PAS 9980:2022 Fire risk appraisal of external wall construction and cladding of existing blocks of flats – Code of practice has been published and is available free.
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Official shortlist – with public vote – to choose home of Great British Railways
Birmingham, Crewe, Derby, Doncaster, Newcastle-upon-Tyne and York will compete to be crowned the home of Britain’s railways, with a public vote closing 15/08. image for illustration only – Open Government Licence v3.0
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