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2021 Scholar Libby Watts introduces the history and production of plain glass windows

2021 Scholar Amy Redman shares her new-found love for a traditional craft and some of its challenges today

To mark 300 years since the death of the ‘incomparable’ sculptor and wood carver Grinling Gibbons, we looked in our archive to explore the relationship between the SPAB and the buildings where his work can be enjoyed today.

Eloise Palin of the Spitalfields Trust shares some of the conservation challenges found in the building's surprising secrets

This 1920s postcard shows our home, Hunter’s Moon, a 16th-century timber-framed house built on the Adur estuary but now a mile from the sea. The road in the foreground (naturally, it’s called The Street) has pre-Roman origins. You can still easily recognise this view today, even the worker’s rough perch. But the surrounding fields, recorded in the Domesday Book, are now buried under suburban developments.

Our archive officer Vicky West explains how to use our new catalogue using the example of a historic case, Tintagel Old Post Office

You’ll find Tretower Court within the upper reach of the Usk valley, just off the old Roman road to Wales (now the A40), surrounded by wooded hills and water. In summer swallows skirl and swoop over the gardens from its ancient eaves.

SPAB volunteer Joe Orsi investigates a mysterious detail

To celebrate Norfolk Day, Fenland and Wash regional group volunteer Steve Mackinder shows us around this historic village, one of the county's lesser known gems.

Volunteers and specialists worked beautifully together to help repair our Old House Project and nearby Boxley Abbey, Kent. There were tons of hands-on activities to try, nights around the campfire and a huge amount of work was achieved.