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- Context 184 under the spotlight: IHBC’s accessible CPD for Conservation Professionals, with Law & Policy Update – ‘A village is not a historic town’ 21/10/2025
- IHBC Research Signpost: Impacts of changes to local authority funding on small to medium heritage organisations 21/10/2025
- 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 21/10/2025
- IHBC launches FREE ‘Events Calendar’ submission form – with potential for inclusion in our celebrated monthly CPD Circular 21/10/2025
- IHBC HESPR’s ‘News from the Sector’: LocalGov on ‘Planning recruitment’ threats as 33 bodies (inc. IHBC) call for funds 21/10/2025
- IHBC features ‘Heritage from the doorstep’: Welsh council to appeal High Court quashing of Article 4s over ‘misleading’ officers’ report 21/10/2025
- TCPA seeks support in Campaign for Healthy Homes: Joining health and PD rights advocacy in Planning Bill changes 21/10/2025
- Licensing builders must happen following ECO debacle, says FMB 21/10/2025
- Honouring the legacy of the Sycamore Gap tree: a new creative commission 21/10/2025
- Built Environment Committee responds to New Towns Taskforce Report 21/10/2025
- £10Mn+ Water company fines fund local restoration projects 21/10/2025
- Elle Cass next Chair Royal Town Planning Institute Board 21/10/2025
- IHBC features ‘Heritage from the Global doorstep’: UNESCO launches the first global Virtual Museum of Stolen Cultural Objects at MONDIACULT 2025 21/10/2025
- 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
Daily Archives: 06/06/2023
IHBC welcomes ministerial opening of National Trust’s new Heritage and Rural Skills Centre, Coleshill
IHBC’s Education Secretary Chris Wood has welcomed the formal opening of The National Trust’s new Heritage and Rural Skills Centre by Lord Parkinson, England\s Minister of State for the Arts and Heritage, on 19 May.
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Time too tight to catch up on ‘Climate Change and the Historic Environment’ at #IHBCSwansea2023 on June 23: Simply book your virtual Day School place from £30+VAT and review the record after!
[slideshow_deploy id=’36681′] On 23 June the IHBC hosts a targeted examination into ‘Climate Change and the Historic Environment’, with current thinking from lead practitioners, funders, researchers & bodies across the UK, so if you are too busy to even drop … Continue reading
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SAHGB-IHBC Heritage Research Award 2023 celebrates ‘research… in heritage and conservation practice’: Enter online before 1/09/23
The IHBC is delighted to announce the opening of the 2023 joint Award with the Society of Architectural Historians of Great Britain (SAHGB) celebrating ‘the quality of architectural-historical research.. in heritage and conservation practice’, now open for submissions and closing … Continue reading
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LAST CHANCE TO BOOK: 2023 Natural Stone Show Seminar programme out includes free IHBC Recognised CPD from HE on Conservation Day, 08/06
The IHBC will be at the Natural Stone Show in ExCeL on 6-8 June, with the full programme of free sessions in the Show’s Seminar Theatre now out, including Conservation Day (08/06), the Historic England (HE) programme of free IHBC-recognised … Continue reading
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IHBC ‘Practice’ Signpost to #IHBCSwansea2023: Wright & Wright on the Spencer Building for Corpus Christi College, Oxford, Passivhouse and more
The Spencer Building, a new Special Collections Centre and Library for Corpus Christi College will bring together the College’s unique collection of manuscripts and early printed books into a single purpose-built space and ‘be one of the greenest projects ever … Continue reading
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IHBC’s HESPR ‘Special Interest News’: Dezeen on ‘New York is sinking’!
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 Dezeen on ‘New York is sinking’!
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IHBC features ‘Heritage from the doorstep’: Ealing Council scraps plans for 26-storey tower at council HQ
Ealing Council scraps approved plans for a 26-storey tower which would have created 477 homes over rising cost of building materials, reports The Evening Standard. image: for illustration – Philafrenzy, CC BY-SA 4.0 , via Wikimedia Commons Ealing Council Building
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‘By All, For All: The Power of Partnership’ – AHRC Creative Communities Deep Dive Report 2023
The Creative Communities programme has shared this first major output, drawing on its first year of activity and research tied to the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC), profiling ‘for the first time the social, economic and political value of … Continue reading
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Scotland’s SPICE Spotlight: What is a ‘wellbeing economy’?
As Scotland now has a Cabinet Secretary for Wellbeing Economy, Fair Work and Energy, SPICE – The Scottish Parliament Information Centre is investigating what a ‘wellbeing economy’ might be, and how is it influences Scottish Government policy.
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Lessons from successful ‘turnaround’ cities for the UK – Navigating Economic Change
The ‘Navigating Economic Change’ series from Economy 2030 Inquiry – linked to the Resolution Foundation – explores how cities can reverse long-term economic underperformance and move towards a new trajectory by looking at seven cities across five countries that faced … Continue reading
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World Monuments Fund Britain announces new Executive Director
Magnus von Wistinghausen has been appointed Executive Director of World Monuments Fund Britain (WMFB), replacing John Darlington, who takes up a new role as Director of Projects.
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IHBC’s IMHO on Scotland’s historic Churches – A little bit of hope on the horizon…
Scotland’s Churches Trust sees some light as Church of Scotland General Trustees introduce a new internal category of ‘Historic Signature Churches’ into their portfolio, which might see some further safeguarding of notable churches that would otherwise have likely been subject … Continue reading
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