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- IHBC welcomes COTAC’s new ‘Developing Personal Competences’ volume: Insight 2 – ‘…for those seeking re-accreditation…’ 15/09/2026
- IHBC hosts stall in Belfast’s Assembly Buildings, 28/09: Part of Heritage Network NI Conference: 27-29 September 15/09/2026
- IHBC launches ‘Early Career Network’ with calls to join up, as new Working Group explores plans for support and services 15/09/2026
- Don’t need your paper Context? Do everyone a favour and pass it on, ‘Spreading the Word’ to help the Conservation Professional! 15/09/2026
- IHBC’s ‘Practice’ CPD Signpost: HE Guidance on ‘Control of Microorganisms in Historic Buildings’ 15/09/2026
- IHBC HESPR’s ‘News from the Sector’….IHBC sponsors Gardens Trust on ‘New Town Landscapes,’ 23-24/09, Milton Keynes 15/09/2026
- IHBC features ‘Heritage from the doorstep’: Albert Bridge gets fresh paint job during repair closure 15/09/2026
- IHBC features ‘Heritage from the doorstep’: Historic status ruled out for Edinburgh block earmarked for demolition 15/09/2026
- TownsWeb digitisation grant: SPAB at 150… ‘from Stonehenge to St Mark’s, Venice’ 15/09/2026
- CITB on ‘Why construction skills strategies must become place-based’ 15/09/2026
- UK Heritage Pulse on ‘Skills Exchange Request the skills you need. Offer the ones you have 15/09/2026
- Charity Commission issues ‘Research and analysis Charity Sector Risk Assessment 2026’ 15/09/2026
- IHBC features ‘Heritage from the Global doorstep’: Robots could harvest lava from volcanic eruptions to make ‘concrete’ of the future 15/09/2026
- IHBC’s newest ‘Branch Committee Bulletin, from the IHBC’s Director’: IHBC’s national updates for local volunteer leads – Part 1 11/09/2026
- IHBC hosts stall in Belfast’s Assembly Buildings, 28/09: Part of Heritage Network NI Conference: 27-29 September 11/09/2026
- IHBC welcomes RICHeS Access Fund second call, opening 14/09 – ‘access… cutting-edge equipment, collections & expertise’, to £20K, for charities, social enterprises, commercial companies etc. 11/09/2026
- Join IHBC’s Membership Assessors now and ‘Shape our Conservation Professionals of the future’, with CPD, status, compensation, and more as thanks and benefits 11/09/2026
- IHBC’s ‘Management’ CPD Signpost: Some sector takes on the NPPF 11/09/2026
- IHBC’s ‘Practice’ CPD Signpost: Dry Stone Walling Association issues Anthology of International Writing, from past and present, for the future’ 11/09/2026
- IHBC Director’ from HESPR’s £5.25m ongoing costed works: Heritage Estate body seeks condition surveys etc, to 09/09 11/09/2026
- IHBC features ‘Heritage from the doorstep’: Plans to transform South Lanarkshire former mining village 11/09/2026
- IHBC features ‘Heritage from the doorstep’: Mentmore Towers: Council orders owner to repair ‘exceptional’ grade I mansion 11/09/2026
- HES Chief quits amid deepening governance crisis 11/09/2026
- Heritage Fund & HE: Understanding the impact of climate change on historic parks, gardens and cemeteries 11/09/2026
- HES launches pilot fund to support Scotland’s historic places of worship: Opens Autumn 2026 11/09/2026
Tag Archives: global
IHBC features ‘Heritage from the Global doorstep’: World’s ocean to be better protected as UK ratifies landmark treaty
The UK has ratified the Biodiversity Beyond National Jurisdiction Agreement.
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IHBC features ‘Heritage from the Global doorstep’: COP31 International Sustainable Buildings Competition, to 1 October 2026
The COP31 International Sustainable Buildings Competition brings together governments, industry leaders, and practitioners to showcase and accelerate best practices across the entire building lifecycle, with a deadline of 1 October 2026.
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IHBC features ‘Heritage from the Global doorstep’: Trump Admin Moves to Gut Historic Preservation Rules
The Trump-led Federal Advisory Council on Historic Preservation has proposed changes to Section 106 of the National Historic Preservation Act, which is triggered when state or federal funding, actions, or approval are connected to a project which includes historic resources, … Continue reading
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IHBC features ‘Heritage from the Global doorstep’: ‘Absolute madness’ – Row over plan to demolish Nazi bunker in Berlin
Plans in Berlin to tear down one of the last remnants of Adolf Hitler’s power centre, of which almost nothing remains except a bunker to build flats and offices are causing problems, reports BBC News.
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IHBC features ‘Heritage from the Global doorstep’: ‘Europe for Culture, Culture for Europe’ – CoEU on ‘European institutions commit to placing culture at the heart of EU policy’
The Council of the European Union (CotEU) reports on how European partner networks signed a joint declaration entitled ‘Europe for Culture, Culture for Europe’, setting out their shared political commitment to protecting, promoting and supporting culture in Europe.
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IHBC features ‘Heritage from the Global doorstep’: Canada’s National Trust celebrates 50 Years of the World Heritage Convention
image for illustration: Rideau Canal, Canada Bobak Ha’Eri, CC BY-SA 2.5, via Wikimedia Commons This summer the National Trust for Canada is teaming up with World Heritage Sites across the country to celebrate the 50th anniversary of Canada’s signing on … Continue reading
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IHBC features ‘Heritage from the Global doorstep’: Green Buildings with living brick… ‘that breathe green too’!
Dutch engineers have developed bricks that grow moss, purify the air, absorb CO2, and cool buildings, reports Green Architecture.
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IHBC features ‘Heritage from the Global doorstep’: WHUK on ‘Heritage Adapts!’ launch
As one a founding leadership partners, on 4 June 2026 WHUK announced the launch of Heritage Adapts!, ‘a global campaign of local stewards’.
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IHBC features our special ‘Heritage from the Global doorstep’ welcome to the new ICOMOS Website
The IHBC is delighted to (finally) welcome April’s launch of the new website for ICOMOS, the ‘global network of professionals and experts working together, for the conservation and protection of cultural heritage sites around the world’.
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IHBC’s ‘Management’ CPD Signpost: New Future_Scapes platform launched to help places respond to climate change and complex challenges
The UK National Commission for UNESCO, in partnership with the Department for Culture, Media and Sport, has launched Future_Scapes – a new digital platform, methodology & toolkit to help places respond more effectively to climate change and other complex environmental … Continue reading
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Tagged action, climate change, global, landscape, opensource, research, UNESCO
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IHBC features ‘Heritage from the Global doorstep’: New Report Charts Path for Canadian Register of Historic Places
image for illustration: Just a Prairie Boy from Calgary, AB, Canada, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons A new report, ‘A Path Forward for the Canadian Register of Historic Places,’ finds that the Canadian Register of Historic Places (CRHP) remains a … Continue reading
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IHBC features ‘Heritage from the Global doorstep’: Historic weather station & landmark on Banff’s Sulphur Mountain returned to former glory
image for illustration: Sulphur Mountain Cosmic Ray Station, Kay Röllig, CC BY 3.0 via Wikimedia Commons An historic weather station on Banff mountain peak has been restored, celebrates Rocky Mountain Outlook.
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IHBC features ‘Heritage from the Global doorstep’: Renovations to Frank Lloyd Wright’s Fallingwater now complete
image for illustration: Fallingwater, Carol M. Highsmith, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons After three years of careful work, the World Heritage Preserved project at Fallingwater is now complete, reports the World Heritage Preserved Blog.
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IHBC features ‘Heritage from the Global doorstep’: ICOMOS etc. ‘Call for Applications’: … World Heritage Management Plans… online site manager consultation on needs etc – to 5/06 for 10/06
ICOMOS, ICCROM and IUCN are inviting World Heritage site managers and heritage professionals to participate in an international consultation, to be held on 10 June 2026, focused on the development and revision of management plans for World Heritage sites.
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IHBC features ‘Heritage from the Global doorstep’: The uncertain road for culture in climate policy… COP30 opens a new path as… ‘what seemed impossible became a reality’.
Simon Musasizi, Regional Co-Chair for Africa and the Arab States has posted a blog for Climate Heritage Network on Brazil’s COP30 in November 2025, when ‘what seemed impossible became a reality’.
IHBC features ‘Heritage from the Global doorstep’: 8 URBACT Good Practices turning cooperation into ‘Social Innovation’… powered by the people with a survey too
As cities experiment with how people and institutions collaborate in different ways and spaces, ‘Social innovation’ is becoming a new way of governing and shaping the public realm, grounded in the collective intelligence of the people.
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IHBC features ‘Heritage from the Global doorstep’: Tourism is huge in Mexico. Spending on cultural sites is not
image for illustration: Palacio de Gobierno, Puebla, México, Diego Delso, CC BY-SA 3.0 via Wikimedia Commons Bloomberg reports that although Mexico is… a ‘cultural powerhouse’, critics are warning that… ‘far too little is spent on maintaining the country’s oldest and … Continue reading
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IHBC features ‘Heritage from the Global doorstep’: European Heritage Hub selects 10 new ‘Local Good Practices’ across Europe
The EU-funded European Heritage Hub has announced the selection of 10 initiatives from its recent Open Call for Local Good Practices, aimed at identifying exemplary local practices in the field of cultural heritage that contribute to the triple transformation (green, … Continue reading
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IHBC features ‘Heritage from the Global doorstep’: Judge halts above-ground construction of Trump’s White House ballroom
image for illustration: The White House, DJTechYT, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons A US judge has halted construction of the above ground portion of Donald Trump’s White House ballroom project, but allowed plans for an underground bunker to proceed, … Continue reading
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IHBC features ‘Heritage from the Global doorstep’: Unprecedented coalition sues for Federal Review of President Trump’s Kennedy Center Plans
image for illustration: Trump Kennedy Center Sign, by Dclemens1971, CC-BY-4.0 via Wikimedia Commons A coalition of eight leading cultural heritage and architectural organizations jointly represented by three law firms filed suit in federal district court in Washington DC seeking to … Continue reading
IHBC features ‘Heritage from the Global doorstep’: Historic Montreal church destroyed by fire… flames spread…
A fire tore through a historic former church in southwestern Montreal early Monday morning, with the flames spreading to the old rectory, which had been converted to a seniors residence, reports The Canadian Press News.
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From Local to Global: The Power of Heritage in a Changing World – Heritage Alliance Insight Report
‘From Local to Global: The Power of Heritage in a Changing World’ explores the significant contribution the UK’s heritage sector makes to international partnership, cultural diplomacy and global collaboration.
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IHBC features ‘Heritage from the Global doorstep’: Europa Nostra announces the 7 Most Endangered Heritage Sites in Europe for 2026
image for illustration: Fort Chambray by Sudika, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons Europa Nostra, the leading European heritage civil society network, has released the list of the 7 Most Endangered heritage sites in Europe for 2026.
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IHBC features ‘Heritage from the Global doorstep’: CyArk launches Virtual Museum to share Ukraine’s heritage
CyArk, a nonprofit organization dedicated to sharing and preserving the world’s culture, and its partners, have launched a new 3D exhibition ‘Our Land, Our Story’ offering virtual access to artifacts currently inaccessible due to the ongoing war.
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IHBC features ‘Heritage from the (globally local) doorstep’: Rare snail ‘cited’ in Council’s approval for Trump Doonbeg ballroom
image for illustration: Doonbeg 14th hole b Terrance Siemon, CC BY 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons Clare County Council has given the green light for a new ballroom at the US President Donald Trump-owned Trump Doonbeg golf resort in west Clare, … Continue reading
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