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Context

Number Theme Copy submission deadline Publication Date
180 Built & Natural environment interface March 2024 June 2024
181 Urban housing July 2024 September 2024
182 Technical: Heating and ventilation September 2024 December 2024

Context is the journal of the Institute of Historic Building Conservation which represents professionals working in the historic built environment in the UK. It is published four times a year and is distributed to Institute members and to a range of other subscribers. Context informs readers about developments in professional practice and the management of the historic environment and provides a forum for discussing issues of professional concern.

Context is edited by Rob Cowan. All enquiries should be directed to: editor@ihbc.org.uk Context is published four times a year.


Guidance for contributors to Context
Notes for authors
Notes for book reviewers

Publication schedule

Editorial Board meetings, last Friday of the month

ACTING CHAIR OF EDITORIAL BOARD
Michael Taylor email

The IHBC is a registered charity and exists to promote our charitable objectives. Context is sent to individuals who are not members of the IHBC only when they subscribe to the charity. Subscriber rates are the same as membership rates, and benefits include, as well as Context, the IHBC's annual review, the IHBC Yearbook. Subscribers are strongly encouraged to sign up to Gift Aid to support the IHBC's charitable activities. No concessionary rates are available to subscribers. To join as a subscriber please contact admin@ihbc.org.uk.

Context is made available to corporate bodies (libraries; educational bodies etc) at a corporate subscription rate, including postage of: United Kingdom £60; Elsewhere £90.

Subscription orders together with cheques made payable to the 'Institute of Historic Building Conservation' should be sent to the:

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Context on-line archive
The articles from Context are published on a searchable on-line archive six months after publication. To visit the archive click here.

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To advertise appropriate products and services in Context, please contact our publisher Cathedral Communications on context@cathcomm.co.uk, 01747 871717. Full details

Cotext 179


Cover of
CONTEXT No.179
March 2024

Hadrian's Wall

Articles incude:

Hadrian’s Wall from end to end
Zinnie Denby-Mann

Hadrian’s Wall Path and the national trails
Polly Martin

What happened to Hadrian’s Wall?
Alexandra Fairclough

Cumbria’s vernacular architecture and the Roman wall
Peter Messenger

Discovering bastles
Peter Ryder

Regeneration in Carlisle
Roger Higgins

Union Chain Bridge: crossing the border
Mark Douglas

Nairn’s Manchester revisited
Ian Wray

The battle for Mill Road Free Library
John Preston


The 2023 IHBC Yearbook

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