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02/06/2021

The at-risk quayside at Ramelton reflects its past as an important trade port.

05/05/2021

8-9 May is National Mills Weekend. Tag us in on social media to celebrate traditional wind and watermills. Repairs to our own windmill in Leicestershire will begin this summer.

28/04/2021

SPAB member Caroline Murray explores the work of a key figure in the historic silk industry

27/04/2021

Huddled beneath a vast sky, on the edge of a cliff, dwarfed by a hulking conical hill sits Holy Cross Church at Mwnt, Ceredigion. 

21/04/2021

Communications officer Felicity enjoys the illusions of a historically-informed 21st century theatre.

 

13/04/2021

Mary, Ethel and Violet Pinwill were three extraordinary women who worked as professional woodcarvers in Ermington and then Plymouth, Devon, from about 1889. Author Helen Wilson introduces the work of this family of craft pioneers.

09/04/2021

Just outside Halesworth in Suffolk, stands what could be mistaken for a farmhouse but which became a secret meeting house for ‘independents'.

08/04/2021

SPAB member Patrick Stow introduces his new series of books drawing from his careeer as a conservation engineer. Here he explains why he became fascinated by this work and what has prompted him to write.

07/04/2021

Recently, the 12th-century alabaster arch to St Mary’s, Tutbury, Staffordshire was cleaned.

22/03/2021

In anticipation of what would have been our founder William Morris' 187th birthday, Helen Elletson, curator at the William Morris Society, writes of the life at his home in Hammersmith, London.