Daily Archives: 20/06/2023

IHBC’s Heritage MarketPlace:LIVE (21/06, 4.30PM; free & open to all) covers insurance (MFL) trees (Woodland Trust), communities (Civic Voice), sustainability, practice, research drawings and much more, all for #IHBCSwansea2023

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More detail on the IHBC’s Heritage MarketPlace:LIVE Zoom Breakout sessions on 21 June is available – 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!

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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 in live … Continue reading →

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Welsh Government Deputy Minister Dawn Bowden MS to speak at IHBC 2023 School – ‘Climate Change and the Historic Environment’ – 23 June, in Swansea and online: #IHBCSwansea2023

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The IHBC warmly welcomes the agreement by Welsh Government Deputy Minister for Arts, Sports & Tourism, Dawn Bowden MS to address Day School delegates – in Swansea and online – at the IHBC’s 2023 Annual School: ‘Climate Change the Historic … Continue reading →

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IHBC Signpost: Helping to keep a critically endangered craft alive

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Daniel Cheetham, carpenter and SPAB Millwright Fellow 2023, reflects on how he became involved with millwrighting, a critically endangered craft. image: Daniel Cheetham – SPAB website

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IHBC features ‘Heritage from the doorstep’: London theatre producer forced to tear down ‘fortress’ home in Norfolk

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Adam Spiegel and his wife, the owners of a north Norfolk home dubbed a coastal ‘fortress’ by locals have been ordered to tear it down. image for illustration: Palmiped, CC BY-SA 3.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0>, via Wikimedia Commons

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European Heritage Hub inaugurated to support Europe’s green, social and digital transformation through cultural heritage

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The European Heritage Hub was inaugurated in May in Brussels, with Europa Nostra taking the role of project leader. image: c. Europa Nostra

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HE ‘shares learned lessons’ in publishing ‘Heat Pumps in Historic Buildings -Air Source Heat Pump Case Studies – Small-scale Buildings’

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Historic England has published Heat Pumps in Historic Buildings to share the lessons learned from a study of ten small-scale historic properties with air source heat pumps installed as their primary means of space heating. image: Historic England

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Hundreds of churches will have to close, says Kirk Trustees

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The Church of Scotland will have to close hundreds of churches in the coming years, the Kirk’s trustees have warned as it stages its annual General Assembly. image for illustration only – Fiona Newton

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Historic stone buildings and bridges could be preserved by new engineering technique

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A new engineering technique that could help to preserve historic stone buildings and bridges has been developed by researchers at the University of Sheffield. image: for illustration only – Joanna Theobald

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Scotland’s Community landowners support ambitious land reform and nature restoration: Conference update

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Community Land Scotland held it’s 12th annual conference ‘Community Ownership and Land Reform: Marking the Centenary, Shaping the Future’ celebrated the centenary of the first community buyout to be completed. image: Community Land Scotland website

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Austria to use Hitler’s birthplace for police human rights training

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The house in Braunau am Inn where Adolf Hitler was born will become police station and training centre after €20m renovation. image: for illustration – by Stadtamt Braunau am Inn – CC BY-SA 3.0

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