The new Context, the IHBC’s membership journal and key heritage sector resource, has just been circulated to members, offering contents that span the full spectrum of practices and principles, alongside the regular sector updates: reports, reviews, events, briefings and much more.
IHBC Director Seán O’Reilly said: ‘We’ll put this issue online immediately, to help extend conservation awareness as far as possible.’
‘That said, the most accessible way learn to about conservation principles, practice and thinking – and in this issue especially to catch the insider track on philosophy for your membership application – is to explore this issue in hard copy, as an IHBC member.’
‘From now on we’ll also be using social media posts to help people focus on CPD and accreditation issues too, so there’s an easier route to the skills covering our Areas of Competence. Already we give pointers like these in our events postings, but now we are extending this service to Context!’
Selections from IHBContext144:
- Want to find out more about local listing, with PlaceCheck, or WHS fires… or pub values – see the IHBContext144 ‘Briefings’
- Periodically: Distilled heritage periodicals from Bob Kindred IHBC – & 2013 Student Awardee Lisa McIntyre on medieval bishops’ palaces in the JAC!
- Aimée Felton, IHBC’s first Associate Member, on Insall’s ‘Restoring Kew’s Temperate House’
- Scaffolding – ups and downs: Interventions, covering technology competences and more
- HGV vibrations – time for re-assessment, says Champion
- Conservation in the round with high points of high Streets: ‘Putting shops to viable uses consistent with their conservation should seek to encourage maximum use of the building for modern purposes, while also maximising the heritage value.’
- Richard Bate on conservation services and officers: ‘The paltry savings on modest salaries seems wholly misplaced in relation to the potential benefits of retaining and augmenting conservation staff
For Context 144:
- IHBC Members: See your postbox, if you don’t already have it
- Non-members: Go to http://ihbconline.co.uk/context/144/
As ever, themed issues of Context also include more general conservation articles as well as news, book reviews and reports from IHBC’s officers. Issues are posted online approximately six months after they are issued to members.
If you have any suggestions for Context articles or other material contact Fiona Newton at: editorial@ihbc.org.uk
View the Summer School Context edition and the Context archive, as well as information on Context’s future issues and guidance for authors HERE
For information on Context’s future issues, guidance for authors, and links to the journal’s archives see the IHBC website
