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The Building Conservation Directory
The 2025 edition brings together the latest expert advice and up-to-date information on craft skills, conservation products and specialist services, as well as course listings, sources of advice and other essential information.
A hard copy may be ordered here and a free digital 'flipping book' version is available in digital format here.
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We are always looking for new articles which draw attention to key issues likely to be encountered by those responsible for the conservation or adaptation of historic buildings and sites for our magazines.
Guidance for authors is available here.
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Historic Churches magazine
The new edition of Historic Churches has now been printed.
Current issues in this 31st edition include church closures, grant aid and why church doors should be kept open. Other articles explore the rich treasures they contain.
For full details of what's included in this latest edition and to order your copy see here.
In his article 'Grinling Gibbons and Colour', Lee Prosser, curator of historic buildings at Historic Royal Palaces, outlines how the work of the most famous timber carver in history may once have looked.
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Green Infrastructure and the Urban Historic Environment
THE OLDEST municipal public parks have now served their communities for more than 150 years. As the gruesome Covid-19 lockdowns in 2020 demonstrated, they are still essential and very much valued.
Designed by Joseph Paxton and opened in 1847, Birkenhead Park was one of the first great public parks and the inspiration for New York's Central Park (Photo: Alexandre Gravis, CC by SA 4.0)
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