Uncategorized – Context

165 – August 2020
Food and drink

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FOOD AND DRINK

Editorial – Change on the menu

PETER DE FIGUEIREDO – The decline and revival of food markets

LOUISE PRIESTMAN – Buildings, food and festivities

KATI PRESTON – Cambridge Market’s living heritage

JOHN PRESTON – Significance and heritage protection at Cambridge Market

CEINWEN PAYNTON – Incredible Edible Todmorden

GEOFF BRANDWOOD – The changing face of the English pub

FIONA NEWTON – The Improved Public House

LYNN PEARSON – The Co-op: horse and cart to hypermarket

MADELEINE RIGBY – A new purpose for the Horlicks Factory

GRAHAM TITE – From Chaucer to Fawlty Towers

PHILIP DAVIES – Saving the Commonwealth’s heritage

164 – May 2020
The war on Damp

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Editorial – It started with a blocked gutter

SOKI RHEE-DUVERNE – Assessing moisture in porous building materials

ROBYN PENDER – Rethinking retrofit

MATTHEW SLOCOMBE – Curated decay

KINLAY LAIDLAW – Conserving Burns Monument

MICHAEL ASSELMEYER – The Victorian new town of Birkenhead

DOUGLAS CAMPBELL – Monumental fall from public consciousness

CHRISTINA SINCLAIR and REBECCA BURROWS – Manchester Town Hall: understanding significance

MATTHEW PRICE – The Scots reed thatching tradition

JANE KENNEDY – The Manor House, Bracondale: a labour of love

163 – March 2020
Ireland

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ARTHUR PARKINSON – The development of Irish building conservation

CHARLES DUGGAN – The making of the 14 Henrietta Street Museum

ALISTAIR ROWAN – The origins of the Buildings of Ireland

FREDERICK O’DWYER – To restore or to repair?

JOHN GRABY and ROBIN MANDAL – The RIAI’s role in conservation

IRENIE McLOUGHLIN – The evolving architectural conservation officer

JACQUI DONNELLY – Ireland’s climate change sectoral adaptation plan

CLAIRE BRADY – A heritage partnership agreement for King’s Cross Station

HELEN THOMAS – Walled kitchen gardens of the Isle of Wight

HARRIET BELL – Participation, heritage and a local plan

162 – November 2019
Learning from New Towns

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Editorial – Learning from new towns

Post-war new towns in Germany – MICHAEL ASSELMEYER

Socialist realism in a post-war Czechoslovak new town – ANDREW McCLELLAND

The complex heritage of French new towns – FRÉDÉRIC THEULÉ, translated by CALLUM WALKER

Saving new town heritage – BOB COLENUTT and SABINE COADY SCHAEBITZ

The return of garden towns and garden villages – KATIE PARSONS

Harlow and its civic society – TONY EVANS

Capturing the significance of a designed city – SIMON PEART

Lewes Neighbourhood Plan: radical and ambitious – MICHAEL SCAMMELL

Controversy at the Commandery and other tales – TEGAN CORNAH, TIM CORNAH, EMILY HATHAWAY and SHEENA PAYNE LUNN

Historic steel-framed windows – SOPHIE GODFRAIND

161 – September 2019
IHBC Annual School, Nottingham

IHBC Annual School Nottingham

Heritage, risk and resilience: confronting conservation calamities

Editorial – What we learned in Nottingham

Thursday Tours

Friday Day School:

Recovery and disaster management
Keynote speaker – Zaki Aslan

SESSION 1: FIRE
Fire and emergency – Steve Emery

Reconstructing the Mackintosh – Liz Davidson

SESSION 2: STRUCTURAL FAILURE AND HERITAGE AT RISK
The art of the possible – Ed Morton

Getting close to Victoria Mills – Gez Pegram

Heritage at risk: who cares? – Ben Robinson

SESSION 3: SECURITY, DIGITAL TECHNOLOGY AND LEGAL ISSUES
The crime and terrorism risk – Stephen Armson-Smith

Digital against disaster – Lyn Wilson

The legal consequences of destroying heritage assets – Charles Mynors

Heritage assets in disrepair: the legal powers – Nigel Hewitson

SESSION 4: FLOODING
Flood risk and resilience – James Innerdale

Flooding: recovery and improvement – Helen Brownlie

Phoenix at Stoke Rochford Hall – David Cattell

Saturday Tours

IHBC Gus Astley Student Awards and IHBC Marsh Awards

ANTHONY CLARKE – The iron roof at the Albert Dock

JOHN EDWARDS – New standard for retrofitting UK homes

JEREMY PRESCOTT – War memorials: sacrifice and remembrance