The Historic Environment: Policy & Practice

Volume 4 (2013), 2 issues per year

"...essential reading for heritage professionals" Context (November 2011)

Board member profiles

The Historic Environment: Policy & Practice is a journal for all those that investigate, conserve and manage the historic environment.

The journal forms essential reading for all archaeological practitioners, and those involved in building conservation - contractors, consultants, curators, researchers, students and fieldworkers - both professional and voluntary. The journal cuts across organisational divisions to identify themes which are of concern and interest to all practitioners.  

The Historic Environment: Policy & Practice demonstrates best practice and appropriate methods, and the enhancement of technical and professional skills. The journal relates these skills to topical
issues and features the political, legal, economic, cultural, environmental, social and educational contexts, and the academic frameworks, in which those involved in the historic environment work.

The scope includes:

• Development of skills and competence in archaeology and conservation
• Best practice approaches to cultural resource management
• New techniques in the investigation of ancient and recent archaeological sites, landscapes and buildings
• The relationship between historic sites and past and future environmental change

Forthcoming issues will cover: Buildings archaeology in Portugal; Heritage Protection Review; Co-ordinating information on historic houses: excavating and restoring historic gardens; A study of the chemin des Juifs (Jews’ road), and linked Jewish slave labour camps and related sites.

CALL FOR PAPERS: Energy efficiency and historic buildings

The UK government has announced the reduction of carbon emissions by 80% by 2050 from a 1990 baseline. As existing buildings in the country are thought to account for nearly half of carbon emissions, radical solutions to improve their energy efficiency are demanded.

This special issue of The Historic Environment aims to investigate how energy efficiency can be implemented within the context of historic environment.

Read the full Call for Papers.

REVIEW: The Historic Environment in Context...

The Historic Environment: Policy & Practice is regularly reviewed in Context, the magazine of the Institute for Historic Building Conservation (IHBC). Read a full review.

Discounts to The Historic Environment available for a number of organisations

Are you a member of the Institute for Archaeologists, Institute for Historic Building Conservation or the Historic Towns Forum? If so, you are eligible for a discount on an individual subscription to the journal. Click the 'subscribe' button to read all about our members rates.