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- We are delighted to partner with a range of sponsors on the SPAB Heritage Awards. Read more about how our SPAB Heritage Awards 2024 sponsors are supporting a thriving heritage sector below.
- 2021 Scholar Amy Redman shares her new-found love for a traditional craft and some of its challenges today...
- The Tiles and Architectural Ceramics Society (TACS) invites you to view Part One of their 2021 online conference Terracotta: Past Present and Future. The recorded lectures are free to view.
- Join Icon online for their 3rd Annual Lecture, which will delve into the famed and mysterious wreckages of Captain Sir John Franklin's 1845 'lost expedition'. Recently the subject of hit AMC and BBC TV series The Terror, Frank
- We were recently consulted about works to repair the Grade II* listed almshouses in Tregony, Truro.
- 2021 SPAB Scholar Libby Watts introduces the history and production of plain glass windows...
- An intensive, six-day workshop in cutting fine lettering in stone with Master Craftsman, Robbie Schneider. The focus will be equally on tools and cutting technique and essential drawing skills for letter design, spacing and layout. 
- Online presentations will cover HES heritage priorities, Glasgow’s re-located structures, an approach to existing building retrofit and the sustainable, low energy refurbishment of traditional and historic buildings supported by case studies.
- Kevin will explain how problems can arise in old buildings and what techniques are suitable to repair them, using a mixture of case studies and practical examples in The Folly's garden. The day will cover lime plasters, lime pointing and lime
- For Edinburgh Doors Open Days 2021 Cobble Tales is offering free audio tours in the New Town.
- Join BLF members and lime enthusiasts from across the world at this year’s conference.
- We aim to post on our social media channels regularly with tips and advice, inspiring stories and the latest news about our work and the heritage sector. Please share your videos, photos, and ideas with us on social media.
- We look at these humble buildings, which offer refuge to travellers in a sometimes unforgiving landscape.
- 18 & 22 November, Bats in Churches Project
- The potential repair of these beautiful but sadly neglected structures in Devon is a long running SPAB case. We are increasingly concerned at their rapid deterioration; in June 2021 part of the roof over the 17th-century bay collapsed.
- Developing the skills, training, and expertise for the challenges ahead. The conference will take place over two days, 23 and 24 November, from 10.00 to 13.00 on each day. COTAC - The Council on Training in Architectural Conservation
- Maintenance Week (19-26 November 2021) reminds anyone who cares for a property - regardless of its age, type or purpose - of the straightforward steps they can take to protect their building from winter weather.
- We are delighted to be hosting two forthcoming online sessions on the IHBC helpdesk during COP26.
- In the coverage of COP26 and the climate crisis, we’ve been hearing a lot about the part that buildings will play in reducing our use of fossil fuels.
- To John Ruskin Lincoln Cathedral was “the most precious piece of architecture in the British Isles”. One of its most celebrated features is the carved Romanesque frieze on the façade and we are deeply concerned about its future.
- The ancient church of St Tanwg sits in a hollow in the sand dunes at Llandanwg. Worship in this simple medieval building is accompanied by the sound of the deep roll of the sea.