Current Guidance and Advice

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Accessing England's Protected Wreck Sites: Guidance notes for divers and archaeologists
Adapting Historic Buildings for Energy and Carbon Efficiency: Advice Note 18
Adapting Traditional Farm Buildings
Adaptive Reuse of Traditional Farm Buildings: Historic England Advice Note 9
Aerial Reconnaissance Project Planning Note (MoRPHE PPN5)
Animal Bones and Archaeology
Archaeological and Historic Pottery Production Sites
Archaeological Evidence for Glassworking
Archaeometallurgy: Guidelines for Best Practice

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BIM for Heritage: Developing a Historic Building Information Model
BIM for Heritage: Developing the Asset Information Model
Briefing Note on National Listed Building Consent Orders

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Church Roof Replacement Using Terne-coated Stainless Steel
Commercial Renewable Energy Development and the Historic Environment: Historic England Advice Note 15
Conservation and Management of War Memorial Landscapes
Conservation Area Appraisal, Designation and Management
Conservation Principles, Policies and Guidance for the Sustainable Management of the Historic Environment
Conservation, Repair and Management of War Memorials
Conserving Georgian and Victorian terraced housing: A guide to managing change
Conserving Historic Water Meadows
Conserving War Memorials Case Study: Deterioration of Metal Fixings
Conserving War Memorials Case Study: Differential Movement of Foundations
Conserving War Memorials Case Study: The Conservation of Mortar-Filled Inscriptions
Conserving War Memorials Case Study: The Replacement of Missing Bronze Elements
Conserving War Memorials Case Study: The Surface Treatment of Bronze Statuary - Bootle
Conserving War Memorials Case Study: The Surface Treatment of Bronze Statuary - Tottenham
Conserving War Memorials: Cleaning
Conserving War Memorials: Inscriptions
Conserving War Memorials: Structural Problems and Repairs
Curating the Palaeolithic

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Delivering Public Engagement, Skills and Training
Dendrochronology: Guidelines on Producing and Interpreting Dendrochronological Dates
Deposit Modelling and Archaeology: Guidance for mapping buried deposits
Digital Image Capture and File Storage
Drawing for Understanding
Drawing up a Local Listed Building Consent Order: Historic England Advice Note 6

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Easy Access to Historic Buildings
Easy Access to Historic Landscapes
Energy Efficiency and Historic Buildings: Draught-proofing windows and doors
Energy Efficiency and Historic Buildings: Early cavity walls
Energy Efficiency and Historic Buildings: Energy Performance Certificates (EPCs) Case Studies
Energy Efficiency and Historic Buildings: Insulating dormer windows
Energy Efficiency and Historic Buildings: Insulating flat roofs
Energy Efficiency and Historic Buildings: Insulating pitched roofs at ceiling level - cold roofs
Energy Efficiency and Historic Buildings: Insulating pitched roofs at rafter level-warm roofs
Energy Efficiency and Historic Buildings: Insulating solid ground floors
Energy Efficiency and Historic Buildings: Insulating solid walls
Energy Efficiency and Historic Buildings: Insulating thatched roofs
Energy Efficiency and Historic Buildings: Insulating timber framed walls
Energy Efficiency and Historic Buildings: Insulation of suspended timber floors
Energy Efficiency and Historic Buildings: Open fires,chimneys and flues
Energy Efficiency and Historic Buildings: Secondary glazing for windows
England's Redundant Post-War Coal- and Oil-Fired Power Stations
Environmental Archaeology

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Gasworks and Redundant Gasholders: Guidelines for their Evaluation and Recording
Geoarchaeology: Using Earth Sciences to Understand the Archaeological Record
Geospatial Survey Specifications for Cultural Heritage
GPA 1 - The Historic Environment in Local Plans
GPA 2 - Managing Significance in Decision-Taking in the Historic Environment
GPA 3 - The Setting of Heritage Assets
GPA 4 - Enabling Development and Heritage Assets
Graffiti on Historic Buildings: Removal and Prevention
Graphical and Plane Table Survey of Archaeological Earthworks
Greater Lincolnshire Farmstead Assessment Framework
Greater London Archaeological Priority Area Guidelines
Guide for Owners of Listed Buildings
Guide to Historic Environment Records (HERs) in England
Guidelines on the X-radiography of Archaeological Metalwork

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Heat Pumps in Historic Buildings (Air Source Heat Pump Case Studies – Small-scale Buildings)
Heritage Champions Handbook
Heritage Crime Impact Statements
Heritage Crime Interventions: Prosecutions and alternative disposals
Heritage Crime Prevention: Advice for those who care for heritage assets
Heritage Crime Risk Assessment
Heritage Crime: Guidance for Sentencers
Heritage Works
Historic Environment and Site Allocations in Local Plans
Historic Environment Guidance for Wave and Tidal Energy
Historic Fibrous Plaster in the UK: Guidance on its Care and Management
Historic Military Aviation Sites Conservation Guidance
Historic Wreck Sites At Risk: A Risk Management Toolkit

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Installation of Telecommunications Equipment in Churches and Other Listed Places of Worship
Insuring Historic Buildings and other Heritage Assets
Introductions to Heritage Assets: 19th and 20th Century Roman Catholic Churches
Introductions to Heritage Assets: 19th- and 20th-Century Convents and Monasteries
Introductions to Heritage Assets: 20th-Century Coal- and Oil-Fired Electric Power Generation
Introductions to Heritage Assets: Anglo-Jewish Burial Grounds - The Post-Resettlement Period
Introductions to Heritage Assets: Animal Management
Introductions to Heritage Assets: Artillery Defences
Introductions to Heritage Assets: Banjo Enclosures
Introductions to Heritage Assets: Buildings and Infrastructure for the Motor Car
Introductions to Heritage Assets: Causewayed Enclosures
Introductions to Heritage Assets: Caves, Fissures and Rockshelters
Introductions to Heritage Assets: Civil Defence - From the First World War to the Cold War
Introductions to Heritage Assets: Coastguard Stations
Introductions to Heritage Assets: Domestic Housing for Disabled Veterans 1900-2014
Introductions to Heritage Assets: Drill Halls
Introductions to Heritage Assets: Earthwork Castles
Introductions to Heritage Assets: Enclosed Prehistoric Settlements
Introductions to Heritage Assets: Field Systems
Introductions to Heritage Assets: Gasworks and Gasholders
Introductions to Heritage Assets: Hermitages
Introductions to Heritage Assets: Hillforts
Introductions to Heritage Assets: Historic Amusement Parks and Fairground Rides
Introductions to Heritage Assets: Interwar Theatres
Introductions to Heritage Assets: Later Prehistoric Shrines and Ritual Structures
Introductions to Heritage Assets: Law Courts and Courtrooms 1 - The Buildings of the Criminal Law
Introductions to Heritage Assets: Law Courts and Courtrooms 2 - Civil and Coroner's Courts
Introductions to Heritage Assets: Linear Frontiers
Introductions to Heritage Assets: Mechanics' Institutes
Introductions to Heritage Assets: Medieval and Early Post-Medieval Glassworks
Introductions to Heritage Assets: Medieval and Later Fieldworks
Introductions to Heritage Assets: Medieval Settlements
Introductions to Heritage Assets: Megalithic Chamber Tombs
Introductions to Heritage Assets: Mills
Introductions to Heritage Assets: Nonconformist Places of Worship
Introductions to Heritage Assets: Oppida
Introductions to Heritage Assets: Post-Modern Architecture
Introductions to Heritage Assets: Post-War Landscapes
Introductions to Heritage Assets: Pre-Christian Cemeteries
Introductions to Heritage Assets: Pre-industrial Ironworks
Introductions to Heritage Assets: Pre-industrial Lime Kilns
Introductions to Heritage Assets: Pre-industrial Mines and Quarries
Introductions to Heritage Assets: Pre-industrial Roads, Trackways and Canals
Introductions to Heritage Assets: Pre-industrial Salterns
Introductions to Heritage Assets: Prehistoric and Romano-British Settlements with Structures
Introductions to Heritage Assets: Prehistoric Avenues and Alignments
Introductions to Heritage Assets: Prehistoric Barrows and Burial Mounds
Introductions to Heritage Assets: Prehistoric Henges and Circles
Introductions to Heritage Assets: Prehistoric Linear Boundary Earthworks
Introductions to Heritage Assets: Prehistoric Rock Art
Introductions to Heritage Assets: Public Art 1945-95
Introductions to Heritage Assets: Railway Goods Sheds and Warehouses
Introductions to Heritage Assets: River Fisheries and Coastal Fish Weirs
Introductions to Heritage Assets: Roman Amphitheatres, Theatres and Circuses
Introductions to Heritage Assets: Roman and Medieval Pottery and Tile Production
Introductions to Heritage Assets: Roman and Medieval Sea and River Flood Defences
Introductions to Heritage Assets: Roman Forts and Fortresses
Introductions to Heritage Assets: Roman Settlements
Introductions to Heritage Assets: Saxon Shore Forts
Introductions to Heritage Assets: Science Laboratories to 1900
Introductions to Heritage Assets: Shielings
Introductions to Heritage Assets: Ships and Boats: 1840 to 1950
Introductions to Heritage Assets: Ships and Boats: Prehistory to 1840
Introductions to Heritage Assets: Shopping Parades
Introductions to Heritage Assets: Shrines (Roman and Post-Roman)
Introductions to Heritage Assets: Signal Boxes
Introductions to Heritage Assets: Stone Castles
Introductions to Heritage Assets: Textile Mills
Introductions to Heritage Assets: The Commercial Office, 1900-39
Introductions to Heritage Assets: The English Public Library 1850-1939
Introductions to Heritage Assets: The English Public Library 1945-85
Introductions to Heritage Assets: The Late 20th-Century Commercial Office
Introductions to Heritage Assets: War Memorial Parks and Gardens
Introductions to Heritage Assets: War Memorial Parks and Gardens
Introductions to Heritage Assets: Water Meadows

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Land Contamination and Archaeology
Lead Roofs on Historic Buildings
Lightning Protection: Design and Installation for Historic Buildings
Listed Building Consent: Historic England Advice Note 16
Listed Buildings and Curtilage: Historic England Advice Note 10
Listing and Grading of War Memorials
Listing Selection Guide: Agricultural Buildings
Listing Selection Guide: Commemorative Structures
Listing Selection Guide: Commerce and Exchange Buildings
Listing Selection Guide: Culture and Entertainment Buildings
Listing Selection Guide: Domestic 1: Vernacular Houses
Listing Selection Guide: Domestic 2: Town Houses
Listing Selection Guide: Domestic 3: Suburban and Country Houses
Listing Selection Guide: Domestic 4: The Modern House and Housing
Listing Selection Guide: Education Buildings
Listing Selection Guide: Garden and Park Structures
Listing Selection Guide: Health and Welfare Buildings
Listing Selection Guide: Industrial Buildings
Listing Selection Guide: Infrastructure - Transport
Listing Selection Guide: Infrastructure - Utilities and Communication
Listing Selection Guide: Law and Government Buildings
Listing Selection Guide: Maritime and Naval Buildings
Listing Selection Guide: Military Structures
Listing Selection Guide: Places of Worship
Listing Selection Guide: Sports and Recreation Buildings
Listing Selection Guide: Street Furniture
Listing War Memorials in England
Local Heritage Listing: Advice Note 7 (2nd ed)

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Maintenance and repair of traditional farm buildings
Making Changes to Heritage Assets: Historic England Advice Note 2
Management of Research Projects in the Historic Environment: The MoRPHE Project Managers' Guide
Managing Lithic Sites: Archaeological guidance for commercial and research projects, planning authorities, land management agencies and developers
Managing Local Authority Heritage Assets
Marine Aggregate Dredging and the Historic Environment (2003)
Marine Geophysics Data Acquisition, Processing and Interpretation
Marine Licensing and England's Historic Environment
Methodist and Nonconformist chapels in Cornwall
Military Aircraft Crash Sites - Archaeological guidance on their significance and future management
Military Wall Art: Guidelines on its Significance, Conservation and Management
Mineral Extraction and Archaeology:Historic England Advice Note 13
Multi-light Imaging for Heritage Applications

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Nanolime: A Practical Guide to its Use for Consolidating Weathered Limestone
National Farmstead Assessment Framework
Neighbourhood Planning and the Historic Environment: Historic England Advice Note 11 (2nd ed)

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Organic Residue Analysis and Archaeology
Our Portable Past