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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: 30/06/2023
IHBC’s 2023 Swansea ‘Annual School’: Interim review and thanks to lead sponsors – MFL, Penderyn & hosting university, UWTSD – volunteers & participants
With the IHBC’s 2023 Swansea School now a week past, the IHBC offers an interim review and a final thanks to School Sponsors – notably School Principal Sponsor MFL Insurance Group and Day School host The University of Wales Trinity … Continue reading
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Serious about your career? Sign up for IHBC’s ‘Jobs etc.’, for posts across diverse disciplines, specialisms and levels: Oxford University, HE (4), Councils (10), Churches (6) and many 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 from the US: ‘Request for comments on Application and Interpretation of… Standards for the Treatment of Historic Properties’
Fulfilling its duty to advise the White House, Congress, and executive branch agencies pursuant to the National Historic Preservation Act, the Advisory Council on Historic Preservation invites public feedback regarding application and interpretation of the Secretary of the Interior’s Standards … Continue reading
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IHBC’s HESPR pick from £715K costed works: HTVF seeks consultant lead, closing 03/07
The IHBC’s heritage business register HESPR – our Historic Environment Service Providers Recognition quality assurance service – emails members regular ‘News and Tender Alerts’, and the IHBC Director’s pick for this week features is the call by Historic Towns & … Continue reading
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IHBC features ‘Heritage from the riverbank’: Al Jazerra meets Matthew Bird… on Lewes, the river Ouse and the rights of nature
An English town’s take on rights of nature made it to Al Jazeera’s recent Podcast the Take, when a town in England – Lewes – voted to recognize the rights of its river, the River Ouse. image for illustration only
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Scotland’s Minister for Culture etc. announces new strategy for Scotland’s historic environment: Our Past, Our Future
Christina McKelvie, Minister for Culture, Europe and International Development, has launched Our Past, Our Future, the new strategy for Scotland’s historic environment sector. image: HES
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Griff Rhys Jones launches 2023 Top Ten Endangered Buildings list
The Top Ten Endangered Victorian and Edwardian Buildings list 2023 has been revealed by the Victorian Society’s President Griff Rhys Jones.
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Mass walkout at RICS as entire Standards and Regulation board resigns
All members of the RICS’s standards and regulation board sprung a major surprise yesterday when they tendered their resignation.
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Launch of Heritage Harbours for England: First 10 Heritage Harbours announced
A new status of Heritage Harbours is being launched today to help safeguard the harbourside, buildings, facilities and businesses that are vital to support our working maritime heritage vessels. image: for illustration – National Historic Ships website
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The UK Government issues policy paper on ‘Highly Protected Marine Areas’ (HPMAs)
The UK Government has published its policy paper on Highly Protected Marine Areas (HPMAs) which applies to England from May 2023. image: for illustration – Dunes at Allonby by Stephen McKay, CC BY-SA 2.0 , via Wikimedia Commons
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7,000-Year-Old Ancient Stones in France Removed to Make Way for a New Hardware Store Chain
A field of ancient stones in Carnac, a town in northern France, has been swept away to make room for a hardware store chain, France 24 reported. image: Haffen56, Carnac menhirs Wikimedia Commons
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