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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: 10/06/2023
UPDATE on IHBC’s Heritage MarketPlace:LIVE sessions (21/06, from 4.30pm) FREE & OPEN TO ALL with HE, HES, Woodland Trust, Civic Voice & more (including Canada) and supporting #IHBCSwansea2023 on ‘Climate Change & the Historic Environment’
The IHBC has updated details for our Heritage MarketPlace:LIVE Zoom Breakout Rooms topics and hosts, for 21 June, where anyone registered can meet, network, ask and learn about a huge range of heritage-linked topics, live and online, supporting #IHBCSwansea2023.
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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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IHBC welcomes Civic Voice as first Media Network Partner for Heritage MarketPlace:LIVE (21/06, from 4.30) FREE & OPEN TO ALL, supporting #IHBCSwansea2023
IHBC Director Sean O’Reilly has warmly welcomed England’s Civic Voice as Media Network Partner for the virtual Heritage MarketPlace:LIVE, on 21 June from 4.30PM, free & open to all and supporting IHBC’s 2023 School. on Climate Change and the Historic … Continue reading
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Serious about your career? Sign up for IHBC’s ‘Jobs etc.’, for opportunities across diverse disciplines, specialisms and levels: Cadw, councils, practices, trusts (Canal & River to Stirling, Churches & Landmark) and more
To help connect employers’ needs and practitioners’ skills, the IHBC regularly updates NewsBlog readers on the wide-ranging opportunities on our ‘IHBC Jobs etc.’ service, so be sure to sign up for free alerts and ‘stay ahead’ with the our unique … Continue reading
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IHBC Practice Signpost: Developer bids to overturn decision to grant Port Dundas sawmill listed status
The developer behind plans to demolish a Victorian industrial building in Glasgow to deliver a block of 60 apartments has against a recent decision to give it listed status. image: for illustration – HES
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IHBC’s HESPR pick from £200K costed works: Council seeks field work, closing 03/07
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 a Council’s call for archaeological field work, … Continue reading
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IHBC features ‘Heritage from the (Farnham) doorstep’: Can you help a local paper open the pages on 130 years of history?
The Farnham Herald’s ‘Herald Digital Archive Project’ is seeking a new volunteer to help share more than 130 years of local history immortalised in the pages of the Herald with a wider audience.
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Heritage Fund: Applications now invited for grants up to £10M
You can now apply for grants up to £10million from the Heritage Fund as their upper limit of National Lottery Grants for Heritage to support larger-scale heritage projects across the UK has been increased. image: for illustration
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Building Stones Database for England launched
More than 4,000 types of building stone are catalogued in a new online database launched by Historic England, as The Building Stones Database for England is the first online searchable tool gathering information on all types of stone used in … Continue reading
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Red List of Endangered Crafts 2023 published by Heritage Crafts
The 2023 edition of the Red List was produced by Heritage Crafts with the support of the Pilgrim Trust.
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ICON publishes new Skills Strategy 2023
The Institute of Conservation has published its new skills strategy to support the delivery of its strategic priorities.
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TCD: Incredible photos showing how a new ‘billboard law’ has completely transformed this city
The Cool Down (TCD) has reported on a recent Reddit post highlighting the impact of a Polish law that limits the placement of billboards throughout the country. image for illustration: Times Square digital billboards by chensiyua, CC BY-SA 4.0 Wikipedia
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