The IHBC is delighted to invite ALL our IHBC Committees to be represented at the next Branch Connection Event, taking place online on 22 January 2026, from 2:00pm to 4:00pm, so if you a Committee member interested in joining in, be sure to let your Branch Committee leads know!
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The IHBC is delighted to offer free entry for our members to the Listed Property Owners Club’s (LPOC) annual London Listed Property Show, on 30-31 January 2026 in London’s Olympia (pre-booking essential), with stands still available.
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The IHBC is delighted to celebrate and congratulate the winners of this year’s Society of Architectural Historians of Great Britain (SAHGB) awards, including the joint SAHGB-IHBC Heritage Research Award, awarded to Dr Victoria Perry and Isabelle Adamthwaite of IHBC HESPR member Donald Insall Associates (DIA).
Continue readingA new Creative Industries Policy and Evidence Centre (PEC) State of the Nations report, building on its previous Arts, Culture and Heritage (ACH) research, finds that exit rates from the sector are higher compared with other sectors.
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The IHBC’s heritage business register HESPR – our Historic Environment Service Providers Recognition quality assurance service – emails members our exclusive ‘News and Tender Alerts’, with the Director’s tender taster for NewsBlog readers this week from an English Council, seeking architectural advice on conservation works on a Grade II (GII) building, to 30/01/2026 and valued at £14,400.
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CBBC has reported that one bridge in Newcastle [city host for the IHBC’s 2026 Annual School] has proven such a popular hangout for birds that nine tonnes of poo has had to be removed from the structure.
Continue readingNatural England’s new Strategy ‘Recovering Nature for Growth, Health and Security’ has been issued.
Continue readingThe Town and Country Planning Association (TCPA) has issued a new Newsletter on Healthy Homes, including resources, consultations and events.
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A historic Surrey manor made famous by the BBC sitcom Ghosts has been digitally mapped. Engineers completed a detailed 3D survey of West Horsley Place, reports Digwatch
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The IHBC’s January 2026 Annual General Meeting (AGM) saw trustees appointed; approval for IHBC’s Charter plans, among other business, all bookended by Claudia Kenyatta, Historic England’s New Co-Chief Executive, and post-AGM discussions ranging from housing to congratulations to IHBC’s Chair on his OBE.
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Bob Kindred’s ‘Periodically’, in IHBC’s newest Context issue, No. 185, offers ‘bite sized’ summaries from the best of current conservation and heritage periodicals and handbooks.
Continue readingThe IHBC is delighted to invite ALL our IHBC Committees to be represented at the next Branch Connection Event, taking place online on 22 January 2026, from 2:00pm to 4:00pm, so if you a Committee member interested in joining in, be sure to let your Branch Committee leads know!
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IHBC’s newest CPD Circular, which lists accessible and cost-effective ‘Continuing Professional Development’ (CPD) on our networks, has been simplified, with tighter ties to our Events Calendar, colour coding of provider categories.
Continue readingThe IHBC is delighted to offer free entry for our members to the Listed Property Owners Club’s (LPOC) annual London Listed Property Show, on 30-31 January 2026 in London’s Olympia (pre-booking essential), with stands still available.
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Host platform to the IHBC’s Conservation Wiki, Designing Buildings (DB), has published ‘A Practical Guide to using AI for smaller Construction Firms’ by Greg Wilkes which describes how smaller firms can benefit from using AI.
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The local MP continues to raise concerns about the condition of one of Essex’s most famous buildings Southend’s Kursaal, reports Essex Live News.
Continue readingHistoric Environment Scotland(HES) has published its new strategy for heritage designations in Scotland.
Continue readingHistoric and Botanic Garden (HBG) Training Programme.
Continue readingPfP Thrive, part of the UK’s leading social enterprise Places for People (PfP), has launched the Skills Relay – a nationwide challenge to tackle the UK’s construction and housing skills crisis.
Continue readingScottish Canals reported in December 2025 that Councillors would be asked to consider the Full Business Case for one of the Falkirk and Grangemouth Growth Deal’s flagship skills projects.
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Following the inclusion of Belfast’s Assembly Rooms on the 2025 World Monuments Watch, WMF Britain celebrates Belfast City Council’s commitment to the Rooms as a major step forward in ‘safeguarding this significant historic asset and reimagining its future at the heart of the city of Belfast’.
Continue readingIHBC’s newest CPD Circular, which lists accessible and cost-effective ‘Continuing Professional Development’ (CPD) on our networks, has been simplified, with tighter ties to our Events Calendar, colour coding of provider categories.
Continue readingThe IHBC is delighted to celebrate and congratulate the winners of this year’s Society of Architectural Historians of Great Britain (SAHGB) awards, including the joint SAHGB-IHBC Heritage Research Award, awarded to Dr Victoria Perry and Isabelle Adamthwaite of IHBC HESPR member Donald Insall Associates (DIA).
IHBC Director Seán O’Reilly said: ‘This was a strong year for candidates but I’m delighted to hear that work from DIA – an IHBC HESPR Company – has been recognised this way too.
‘I’d also like to thank especially Neil Burton IHBC, Director at the Architectural History Practice – another IHBC HESPR company – for his role as a judge on our behalf’.
‘Hopefully a further highlight of this success will be the opportunity for the DIA report’s authors to join us at our 2026 Annual School in Newcastle in June.’
Continue readingThe IHBC is delighted to offer free entry for our members to the Listed Property Owners Club’s (LPOC) annual London Listed Property Show, on 30-31 January 2026 in London’s Olympia (pre-booking essential), with stands still available.
Continue readingThe IHBC is delighted to invite ALL our IHBC Committees to be represented at the next Branch Connection Event, taking place online on 22 January 2026, from 2:00pm to 4:00pm, so if you a Committee member interested in joining in, be sure to let your Branch Committee leads know!
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