{"id":41945,"date":"2025-01-21T16:13:00","date_gmt":"2025-01-21T16:13:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/?p=41945"},"modified":"2025-01-20T18:34:33","modified_gmt":"2025-01-20T18:34:33","slug":"ihbc-looks-back-on-context-181-part-2-special-features-update-from-coal-tar-to-blue-plaques-and-climate-impacts-for-insightful-and-accessible-learning-and-cpd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/?p=41945","title":{"rendered":"IHBC looks back on Context 181 (Part 2): Special Features update, from coal tar to Blue Plaques and climate impacts, for insightful and accessible learning and CPD"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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With the new issue of IHBC\u2019s members\u2019 journal, Context<\/em><\/a> now out, did you work through all of our earlier number \u2013 Issue No. 181<\/a> \u2013 which boasted feature articles on topics ranging from wood and coal tar to Blue Plaques and climate impacts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

John Pendlebury and LoesVeldpaus, on \u2018<\/em>Blue plaques for inspiring pioneers\u2019, write:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2018Blue plaques\u2019 are probably the best-known national physical commemoration scheme for marking places associated with notable figures or events. Yet only in 2024 have we seen the advent of a national (in England) blue plaques scheme, to be led by Historic England. English Heritage has managed a blue-plaques programme in London since 1986, inheriting a scheme that has its origins in 1866. English Heritage plaques are subject to strict criteria, including that any recipient must have been dead for at least 20 years, and that there should be a surviving building closely associated with the person in question. Outside London, provision is common but has always been patchy. Many local schemes have come and gone, operating in different ways to different designs and criteria, and many parts of the country have no provision at all\u2026.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Special feature articles include:<\/p>\n\n\n\n