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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: 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
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!
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
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
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
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
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’
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
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
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
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
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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