Daily Archives: 07/01/2025

IHBC’s TWO Marsh Awards for 2025: Nominations sought for ‘Successful Learning’ AND/OR ‘Community Contribution (Retired Members) – to 31 March 2025

The two IHBC Marsh Awards, developed in partnership with the Marsh Charitable Trust, celebrate ‘Community Contributions’ by retired IHBC members, as well as ‘Successful Learning’ in heritage-related skills, with £500 and free places at IHBC’s 2025 Annual School in Shrewsbury … Continue reading

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Join the IHBC’s next virtual Council with free CPD, open to all IHBC members: Tuesday 21 January, 4pm, includes ‘transferable lessons for all practitioners’

All categories of IHBC members – Supporters, Affiliates, Associates and Full Members – are invited to join the IHBC’s next free online Council for more relevant and topical CPD.

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IHBC’s HESPR News and Tender Alert listing spotlight: Director’s sample news selection from December 2024

The IHBC’s heritage business register HESPR – our Historic Environment Service Providers Recognition quality assurance service – emails members ‘News and Tender Alerts’, while after a quiet periods, as now, the IHBC’s Director selects a sample news listing from a … Continue reading

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IHBC features ‘Heritage from the doorstep’ – Southend Council threatens enforcement over Kursaal repairs

image for illustration: The Kursaal by User:Hassocks5489, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons The owner of Southend’s landmark Grade II Kursaal building was threatened with enforcement action and ordered to carry out urgent repairs, it has been revealed, reports the Basildon Canvey … Continue reading

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CMS Parliamentary Committee Inquiry call for evidence: ‘Protecting built heritage’… Importance & Barriers, open to 3 February 2025

image for illustration: Parliamentary copyright images are reproduced with the permission of Parliament Parliament’s Culture, Media and Sport Committee is to examine the importance of built heritage in the UK and the barriers to its preservation, and is open to … Continue reading

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Winners of the 2024 Heritage Crafts Awards announced

image for illustration: Open Government Licence v3.0 Traditional boat builder Gail McGarva has won the fifth annual President’s Award for Endangered Crafts at the 2024 Heritage Crafts Awards, supported by headline sponsor The Royal Mint and venue sponsor English Heritage.

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Historic England researches Local Lists in LPAs: Survey open to 31/01/2025

Historic England (HE) has initiated a project to research, review and provide recommendations on the development and revision of local heritage lists, initially with research into the current picture of Local Planning Authorities’ (LPA) local lists, seeking input from only … Continue reading

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Luna Luna: Crates lost for decades unsealed to reveal a fair dreamed up by art legends

image for illustration: Fairground Carousel ride by Philip Halling, CC BY-SA 2.0 The BBC has reported on newly discovered fairground rides designed by the world’s greatest artists for a single summer, before they disappeared for decades.

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