Publications (listed below)
Our publications are an occasional venture.
Up to date and to the point, based on research or personal engagement, they represent the views of the author, not HRBA or any associated organisation.
Roving Reporter
See also our Roving Reporter series of short blogs – stimulating stories for historic religious buildings.
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Richard Halsey sets out the history of public funding of historic places of worship in England since 1977, and reflects on the lessons learnt.
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Trevor Cooper: Caring for English churches and chapels: the long view
Trevor Cooper looks back two hundred years to identify five long-term pressures faced by English churches and chapels, together with grounds for optimism about the future.
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Holly Isted, Building Volunteers: a survey of church building volunteers in the diocese of Ely
Holly Isted summarises her research into church volunteers.
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Charlotte Dodgeon, Sustaining historic churches: what does recent research tell us?
Charlotte Dodgeon summaries nine recent reports bearing on the future of historic churches, and puts the reports in context in a short introduction.
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Matthew Saunders, How certain is the victory of conservation? Indeed, have we won?
Looking back on his decades of experience in conservation, Matthew Saunders gives his personal views on where we are now, and what the future might hold.
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