News

We're delighted to have lent a treasure from our archive to the current exhibition at Dovecot Studios in Edinburgh, which explores May Morris' life and work. 

Two architecture graduates have jointly won the SPAB's the Philip Webb Award for schemes proving that with imagination and sensitivity you don’t need to demolish historic buildings.

Embroidery artist Niamh Wimperis was given our ‘Sketching with Thread’ workshop earlier this year as a gift. We asked her to share her experience.

For the first time, we are recruiting for millwright applicant on our crafts Fellowship for 2020. We asked 2009 SPAB Fellow Karl Grevatt to share his experience of moving from carpentry into millwrighting.

Much of this early 14th-century castle is still standing untouched since its abandonment in the 15th century. It is now in very poor condition, with parts which are alarmingly unsafe and overgrown.

To celebrate 30 years of our prestigious John Betjeman Award in 2020, we are extending the competition beyond England and Wales, to include faith buildings across the UK and the Republic of Ireland. 

This Award is a scholarship in memory of Gloria Trevisan and Marco Gottardi, who tragically died in the fire at Grenfell Tower. Giulia Pannocchia updates us on her career since the Award

For Halloween, we searched our records for people pictured in our some early photographs.

In October we gathered a group of volunteers to carry out emergency works to a sadly neglected, but historically important cottage.

Rex Wailes was the leading advocate of historic mills within the SPAB in the 1920s. His important personal collection of notes, correspondence, photographs and drawings are being conserved by the Mills Archive Trust.