News - Archive

SPAB Chair Duncan McCallum finds lessons from the past in the SPAB Archive. 

This Black History Month, we’re digging into our Archive to find out what happened to the home of Cesar Picton, one of Britain’s first Black "gentlemen".

On the 110^th anniversary of the Ancient Monuments Consolidation and Amendments Act, we look at how the threat to Tattershall Castle helped to bring about some of the first real protections for ancient buildings.

A lot of thought goes into how best to keep houses warm. But in the 17th century, another big question was how to keep produce cold.

For Explore Your Archives week we’re celebrating stories from our past. 

For Explore Your Archives week we’re celebrating stories from our past.

Standing on the very edge of the county is one of Suffolk's finest medieval churches

We were consulted in the 1920s about repairs to an impressive castle destroyed in the Civil War which later became a tourist attraction.

As it’s Huntingdonshire Day, we had a look in our archives for heritage gems from the area that sometimes causes a bit of a headache for our archivist, as it was abolished as a county in 1974.

Lying in our archives is a heavy and crumbling album. It contains more than a hundred drawings, mostly dated from the 1780s, nearly a century before the SPAB was founded. So who was he and why do we have his work?