image for illustration: Derry City Walls, Derry/Londonderry by SeanMack, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
The Irish Walled Towns Network (IWTN) reports that the island of Ireland has 56 ‘proven’ walled towns, 33 of which have joined the IWTN.
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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 a call from a Scottish contractor for a project Conservation Architect (lead consultant) to 15/01/2026.
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President of the Victorian Society Griff Rhys Jones says some of the most successful growth areas in the UK have been those which maintain a mixture of old and new buildings, reports Sky News.
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Historic England are looking back over 2025 and celebrating 19 unusual historic buildings and places that have been granted protection in England over the past year.
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The National Trust for Historic Preservation (NTHP), founded in 1949 by congressional charter to support the preservation of America’s diverse historic buildings, has sued the White House to stop construction on President Donald Trump’s new ballroom.
Continue readingEvery minute, a building in Europe is destroyed – not by natural disaster, but by human hands, and House Europe wants to stop this destruction and make renovation the new norm, demanding new EU laws to protect affordable housing and the climate!
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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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IHBC Chair David McDonald has updated IHBC members on plans for the 2026 AGM, on 7 January, opening with Historic England’s Co-Chief Executive on ‘… roles and priorities – Growth, Place, and the Heritage Sector’ from 5.30pm.
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IHBC’s new edition of its members’ journal Context is out – No. 185 –and for this round we feature first for NewsBlog readers Chris Wood IHBC, IHBC’s Education Secretary, on a new code of practice for slate and stone roofing from Historic England.
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To connect employers’ needs and practitioners’ skills, the IHBC regularly updates our NewsBlog readers on the wide-ranging opportunities on the ‘IHBC Jobs etc.’ service, so sign up for free alerts and tell your boss or team how our low-cost service helps them and brings public benefits too!
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On 18 November the IHBC hosted the 2025 Westminster launch of its new ‘5 Commitments to Help Heritage Skills in Conservation’, informed by cross-cutting research into challenges across the full landscape of IHBC’s heritage skills interests… ‘From Crafts in Crisis to Rubbish in Retrofit’.
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A new research paper – An investigation in synergy: The intersection of historic building retrofit and the heritage of traditional building craft practices’ in the UK – asks: ‘… is there opportunity for greater synergy between historic building retrofit and traditional building craft…?’
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IHBC’s heritage business register HESPR – our Historic Environment Service Providers Recognition quality assurance scheme for heritage services – emails members weekly ‘News and Tender Alerts’, and this week features, first, Designing Buildings, host platform for IHBC’s Conservation Wiki, with ‘a Designing Buildings Christmas verse’.
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IHBC’s heritage business register HESPR – our Historic Environment Service Providers Recognition quality assurance scheme for heritage services – emails members weekly ‘News and Tender Alerts’, and this week features New Civil Engineer (NCE) in this double-up with Designing Buildings, but in a more sober moment, on ‘The dilemma of industrial heritage’.
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image for illustration: St Nicholas Arms, London Road, Carlisle – September 2016 by The Carlisle Kid, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
From The Christmas Steps to Ye Olde Reine Deer Inn, Historic England explores 12 historic listed pubs with a festive theme.
Continue readingPlans for a new regulator to bring together standards across buildings, products and and professionals in the construction sector have been announced, with a ‘Prospectus’ and a consultation open to 20 March 2026.
Continue readingScotland’s spending watchdog has told Historic Environment Scotland (HES) it must address ‘unacceptable weaknesses’ in its governance in a strongly critical report.
Continue readingLeading lawyer Catherine Howard has appointed to advise the Chancellor on the next phase of planning and infrastructure reforms as she vows to ‘do what it takes to get Britain building’.
Continue readingThe first applications are now open for studentships investigating the barriers to creating healthier places – for people and the planet – through a new consortium of academic and industry partners, with support from the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC).
Continue readingJohn McAslan + Partners, working in collaboration with heritage organisations SAVE Britain’s Heritage and The Twentieth Century Society, has ‘revealed a fresh and compelling new concept for the enhancement of Liverpool Street Station in London’.
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Historic Environment Scotland (HES) is inviting people across Scotland to help shape the future of some of the nation’s most important historic places and collections through a new public consultation.
Continue readingIn November 2025 Heritage Trust North West (HTNW) was selected by Historic England to take on the ownership of Grade I-listed Baguley Hall in Wythenshawe, South Manchester.
Continue readingimage for illustration: The White House by DJTechYT, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
The National Trust for Historic Preservation (NTHP), founded in 1949 by congressional charter to support the preservation of America’s diverse historic buildings, has sued the White House to stop construction on President Donald Trump’s new ballroom.
Continue readingTo connect employers’ needs and practitioners’ skills, the IHBC regularly updates our NewsBlog readers on the wide-ranging opportunities on the ‘IHBC Jobs etc.’ service, so sign up for free alerts and tell your boss or team how our low-cost service helps them and brings public benefits too!
Continue readingIHBC Chair David McDonald has updated IHBC members on plans for the 2026 AGM, on 7 January, opening with Historic England’s Co-Chief Executive on ‘… roles and priorities – Growth, Place, and the Heritage Sector’ from 5.30pm.
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