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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: 18/11/2022
Don’t forget the IHBC’s (FREE) jewels for #IHBC25: No. 4 – Context’s (searchable) online archive, takes you back even to Feb ‘83
The IHBC marks our 25th anniversary across this subscription year, from April 2022 to March 2023, so looking back – and forward – we’re using NewsBlog posts to celebrate some of the free ‘jewels’ helping members and colleagues deliver our … Continue reading
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REMINDER: IHBC Scotland celebrates #IHBC25 anniversary +AGM: December 1, Edinburgh and online – all welcome and free!
IHBC’s Scotland Branch is meeting in person (in Edinburgh) and online as part of the national IHBC25 programme, ‘with some reflections, wine and nibbles’ and including an AGM, on 1 December, from 4pm.
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IHBC Signpost: THA’s Budget Summary now out
The Heritage Alliance has produced its ‘Autumn Statement 2022 – Our Summary for Heritage’ on the Chancellor’s Autumn Statement, delivered 17 November 2022.
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IHBC Signpost: HE’s brief history of reinforced concrete buildings
Concrete is explored by Nicky Hughes for Historic England including as the most commonly used man-made substance on the planet and second only to water as the most utilised resource.
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IHBC’s HESPR weekly pick from £370K+ costed works: Authority seeks Architectural Support re Market Hall, due 6/12, to £125K
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 features and Authority’s call for Architectural Support linked … Continue reading
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IHBC features ‘Heritage from the (Scouser’s) doorstep’: Scotland Road Pubs of Liverpool face last orders
Last orders could soon be called on the area around Liverpool’s Scotland Road, which was once home to more than 200 pubs, reports the BBC. image: for illustration by John Bradley – Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0
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Net-zero guidelines launched at COP27
At COP27 The International Organisation for Standardisation (ISO) has launched a set of definitions and guiding principles for target setting that are intended to guide the creation of credible net-zero targets and plans.
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Would you like to chair the William Morris Society?
The William Morris Society is looking to appoint a new Chair of Trustees when Stephen Bradley steps down in 2023.
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AHRC and DCMS: Culture and Heritage Capital programme joint funding call, closing 17/01/2023
The Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) and Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) have launched a joint funding call to develop Culture and Heritage Capital.
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EU Cultural Heritage report: ‘Threatened by climate change but sustainable solutions help fight it’
An EU group of experts has published a report on cultural heritage resilience for climate change: ‘Strengthening cultural heritage resilience for climate change. Where the European Green Deal meets cultural heritage’.
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New Social value measurement framework receives a significant update from Loop
The National Social Value Standard(NSVS) has launched a new social value measurement framework with the help of economists at social value software organisation Loop.
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