188 – June 2026

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Editorial – Enriching and enhancing

CHARLES O’BRIEN – Listing in England: a National Heritage Service

MATTHEW SAUNDERS – Reviewing the listing process

ROGER BOWDLER – Listing: a view from two places

CHARLES SMITH – Consent orders for listed buildings

NIGEL CROWE – Piloting a national listed building consent order

CATHERINE CROFT – Listing modern buildings

DEBORAH MAYS – Listing Lutyens

JENIFER WHITE – Compiling a register of gardens and other land

DIANE HARVEY-WHITE – Protecting unconventional heritage assets

 

187 – March 2026

 

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Editorial – Defined by diversity

DANIEL CANTRELL – Wessex: chalk and cheese

DUNCAN MCCALLUM – Thomas Hardy: Dorset’s first conservation campaigner?

GREG VENN AND JANE ST JOHN WEBSTER – Saving Somerset buildings

ELIZA GRAY – Remains of the West Country wool industry

ADRIAN NEILSON – Bath: a tale of two world heritage sites

ROSEMARY THORNBER AND MARY MONTAGU-SCOTT – Buckler’s Hard, Beaulieu: building the Georgian navy

JOHN PENDLEBURY – Defending the legacies of the welfare state

 

186 – December 2025

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INFRASTRUCTURE AND INDUSTRY

Editorial – Infrastructure – The Big Picture

PETER DE FIGUEIREDO – The protection and reuse of large industrial structures

LUKE WORMALD – Historic England and infrastructure

SIMON HICKMAN – Reflections on railway heritage

MILES OGLETHORPE – Scotland’s uplifting heritage

WAYNE COCROFT – Power for the people

JOHN PENDLEBURY – Industrial heritage in the Ruhr

DIANE HARVEY-WHITE – The fate of industrial conservation areas

DAVE CHETWYN – Housing and heritage

DAVID ANDREWS – Celebrating brick gothic

 

185 – Roofing – September 2025

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ROOFING

Editorial – Top priority

MADELEINE CLARK – Understanding pitched roofs

CHRIS WOOD – A code of practice for slate and stone roofing

TERRY HUGHES – Reslating an ancient water mill

SOKI RHEE-DUVERNE and JIM HART – A carbon case for indigenous slate

MORWENNA SLADE – Successful solar generation in the historic environment

IMOGEN SHAW and GRAHAM BRIGGS – Sourcing Scottish slate in the 21st century

JOE MATHIESON – The roofscape of Hampstead Garden Suburb

 

ALASDAIR TRAVERS and JON WRIGHT – Conserving the postmodern legacy of the Sainsbury Wing

DEREK LATHAM, PETER STEER and ASHLEY WATERHOUSE – The sad story of Derby Hippodrome

REBECCA THOMPSON – IHBC celebrates World Heritage UK’s anniversary

 

184 – Leaders of conservation thought – June 2025

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Leaders of Conservation Thought

Editorial – Making sense of it all

KATE CLARK – Inclusive, values-based conservation to 2008

CHRIS WOOD – John Ashurst: practitioner, writer and educator

EVE BLAIN – SAVE at 50: celebrating half a century of campaigning

REBECCA MADGIN – Lord Kennet: making government work

JOE HOLYOAK – Discovering Jane Jacobs

DUNCAN McCALLUM – Nineteenth-century conservation thinking from Ruskin onwards


EDWARD LEWIS and OLIVIA STITSON – Replacing Brighton Museum’s roof lantern

SAMMY WOODFORD – The world of generative AI

IAN WRAY – Old buildings and oligarchs