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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: 21/07/2023
IHBC’s Context archive update: All issues now open to search online – ‘a new resource for conservation practice, history and insights’
The IHBC’s online archive of our in-house journal Context has seen its biggest upgrade in recent years, with the rescanning of Issues 1-73 – from February 1983 to March 2002 – to make them fully searchable online as ‘FlippingBooks’.
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IHBC’s Gus Astley Student Award for heritage submissions on UK taught courses: Closes 31/08 – Win £500 + free #IHBCReading2024
The IHBC’s celebrated annual Gus Astley Student Award closes on 31 August 2023, so if you have relevant coursework from ANY UK taught course – under-graduate or post-graduate, completed by 31 August 2022 OR 31 August 2023 –submit it online … 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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IHBC’s ‘Evaluation’ signpost: North East Wales National Park Designation – Project Information
In its Programme for Government (2021-2026) the Welsh Government has set out its intention to designate a new National Park in North East Wales, based on the existing Clwydian Range and Dee Valley Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty (AONB), with … Continue reading
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IHBC’s HESPR pick from £5.6+M costed works: National body seeks architect for Brutalist upgrade, £2M, closing 11/08
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 from a national institution … Continue reading
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IHBC features ‘Heritage from the (Whitehouse) doorstep’: The Hill reports on the US rejoicing UNESCO
US First Lady Jill Biden travelled to France to speak at an event to mark the United States rejoining a United Nations-led education group, the White House said, as reported by The Hill.
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Gove: M&S Marble Arch store cannot be torn down
Marks & Spencer will not be able to bulldoze and redevelop its flagship central London store, after the secretary of state blocked the plans, reports the BBC. image for illustration: Gary Rogers / Marks and Spencer. Commons Wikimedia
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UK Tentative List Review on potential UNESCO World Heritage Sites announced: 7 added
The UK Government has announced the outcome of its ‘Tentative List Review’ which has resulted in the addition of 7 new sites to the UK’s Tentative List of World Heritage Sites. image for illustration: ‘Birkenhead the People’s Park’ – Open … Continue reading
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Heritage charities invited to apply for Movement for Good 2023 large grants
Benefact Group’s Movement for Good Awards is giving away a further £500,000 to support charity projects that have a lasting impact on communities.
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National Churches Trust: £3.6M to help keep churches open and in use
A £3.6 million investment in the National Churches Trust (NCT) grants scheme by the Government’s Heritage Stimulus Fund means that 32 more historic churches and meeting houses are safe for future, offering a ‘great example of a project that helps … Continue reading
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NT: Government is ‘lagging behind’ on preparing for climate change, ahead of ‘make or break’ adaptation programme
The National Trust (NT) has issued a stark warning that the country’s much-loved heritage, landscapes and communities are under increasing threat from extreme weather events and warmer temperatures as a result of climate change. image: NT website
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Empty offices amid construction boom reach record levels
With hybrid working continuing as the norm, and in the midst of a mighty construction boom, cities worldwide find themselves heaped with vacant offices. image: for illustration
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