It’s not quite a binge-watch box-set yet but you can still catch up on any webinars you missed (pay-per-view) as well as watch re-runs of our FREE Conversations Build Understanding series in association with Icon Metals Group. Visit… Read More

Our new programme of online events has proved a great hit with a wide variety of people – and there’s still plenty more to come. The free ‘Conversations Build Understanding’ series, in conjunction with Icon, has attracted sizeable… Read More

Eleftheria Mavromati, who took up one of our student CPD bursaries and travelled from Athens to Bath for our seminar on Treatment & Protection, shares her thoughts and impressions of the day. “As a PhD student I follow… Read More

Delegates from as far afield as Cumbria, Belgium and Athens descended on Bath in March for our seminar on the ‘Treatment & Protection of Heritage Ironwork’. In the Guildhall’s grand Council Chamber, course leaders Andy Thearle, Geoff Wallis… Read More

Following the success of our Forging Ahead conference at the V&A in November 2019, the National Heritage Ironwork Group (NHIG) is excited to announce a new award recognising exemplary conservation within the ironwork sector.  The inspiration of the… Read More

“My experience was wholly positive, from meeting such phenomenal people to learning about the Coalbrookdale shut-down and the way slate was brought up from quarries during the 10-minute champions, and all of that in a truly great venue…. Read More

‘Forging Ahead’, the NHIG’s inaugural conference held at the V&A in November this year, was an entirely fitting celebration of our 10th anniversary, providing as it did a happy meeting of minds between craft practitioners and heritage consultants,… Read More

As a student of Hereford and Ludlow College studying blacksmithing, I was invited to go along to the NHIG’s Pigs, Puddlers and Patterns seminar at the wonderful location of Coalbrookdale. I am still unsure of the path I… Read More

The spark that kindled BathIRON was a desire to share the living and thriving craft of the blacksmith as widely as possible, while drawing attention to our precious ironwork heritage, and promoting a greater understanding of the high… Read More