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06/10/2021

We look at these humble buildings, which offer refuge to travellers in a sometimes unforgiving landscape.

14/09/2021

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

13/09/2021

We were recently consulted about works to repair the Grade II* listed almshouses in Cornwall. We were impressed by the detailed and comprehensive application.

06/09/2021

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

02/09/2021

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.

02/09/2021

It's Remember a Charity week so we're spotlighting the work that has been made possible by gifts in wills in 2021. This year we began repairs to Kibworth Harcourt post mill, the last of its kind in Leicestershire. Thanks to a gift in a will we are able to bring this mill back into use.

01/09/2021

New awards will join our exisiting ones in a celebration of old buildings and the people who champion them.

24/08/2021

An update on the works which began this summer to repair our historic windmill in Leicestershire, returning it to working order for the first time since the 1930s.

24/08/2021

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

17/08/2021

An exciting new series of practical courses offered by the SPAB in association with the National Trust