CONTEXT 185 : SEPTEMBER 2025 7 nephew William (1769–1837), who both travelled extensively in India between 1786 and 1793. The Daniells’ influence can be seen particularly at Sezincote, Gloucestershire, designed by Samuel Cockerill for his brother Charles in 1798. Simon Bradley flags up the significance of Georgian buildings at the start of the Rail200 bi-centenary celebration of the railway age, noting that these should not be overlooked in what is seen as a quintessentially Victorian innovation. This issue continues the longrunning series of articles by Charles Brookings on the design and development of Georgian and Regency architectural details, currently door hinges. Twenty-two examples are clearly illustrated and described for their value as dating evidence. The author notes that, when undertaking refurbishment, it is worth taking advice on the date and condition of any surviving hinges, and the possibility of their repair and reuse rather than wholesale replacement. Georgian Group Journal Membership of the Georgian Group brings with it the excellent annual Georgian Group Journal (Vol XXXIII, 2025), devoted in its entirety to Sir Christopher Wren. The nine papers over 130 pages are by authors with a particular specialism or interest in late-17th- and 18th-century architecture and culture. The most recent developments in Wren’s scholarship are examined, enhancing our understanding of the shared design process that united the work of the building trades, and what this represents in terms of the integral roles in completing Wren’s buildings. Martin Kemp examines the representation of mathematics in the ceiling at the Banqueting House at Whitehall Palace. Charlotte Davies connects the careers of Wren and Edward Pearce in the former’s early career, encouraging a fresh look at their working relationship. Luka Pajovic draws our attention to the City churches immediately after the Great Fire, when the ‘patchedup shells’ of four churches were taken on by the city’s pre-eminent masons and surveyors. Martin Kirkby sheds light on Wren’s decorative schemes for City churches in the 1670s and 1680s. Gordon Higgott focuses attention on Westminster and the 1690s, when Wren’s career changed direction. William Aslet considers Wren’s connection with James Gibbs, following the younger man’s return from Italy. Charles Hyde reveals much about Wren in the final years of his life, based on a newly acquired sales catalogue of Wren and his son from their house in Hampton Court. The current journal has much to tell us about late-17th- and early18th-century life and construction in the context of Wren’s prodigious architectural output. Historic Environment Policy and Practice The latest 190-page bumper edition of the Historic Environment Policy and Practice (Vol 16, No 1, 2025) concentrates particularly on the relationship between heritage, ecology and the natural environment. It explores, for example, management of archaeology in woodland and forestry. The paper likely to be of most interest to Context readers is the one by IHBC member Kate Clark (formerly with English Heritage), providing an overview of the integration of heritage with quality-of-life capital in the 1990s. This had aimed to create integrated placemaking based on an understanding of what people valued. Its origins could be traced to a sequence of early policies with common themes in that era: embedding heritage and sustainability; integrating nature and heritage; looking beyond protected sites at wider concepts of character; scenario planning; and community approaches. At the time this was a new approach to environmental capital and a precursor to today’s natural capital/ ecosystems services model, capturing the value that flows from the services provided by stocks of environmental assets. Clark points out that the DCMS and the Arts and Humanities Research Council are currently supporting a new Culture and Heritage Capital initiative, looking at how the natural capital approach can be applied to culture and heritage. The intention of Clark’s paper is to draw attention to the earlier work in the hope that it might be of interest to those involved in the cultural landscape, everyday heritage, scenario planning and community engagement. Volume 16 Number 1 2025 The Historic Environment POLICY & PRACTICE POLICY & PRACTICE The Historic Environment ISSN 1756-7505 Volume 16 Number 1 2025 ISSN 1756-7505 www.tandfonline.com/yhen The Historic Environment POLICY & PRACTICE Volume 16 Number 1 2025 CONTENTS Editorial Editorial 16.1 ‘All Natural Things’: Environment and Heritage Gill Chitty 1 Value and Connectedness Quality of Life Capital – Integrating Heritage and the Environment in the 1990s Kate Clark 8 Introducing Heritage Connectedness: Connections to People, Nature and Place Across Time are Associated with Wellbeing and Environmentalism Miles Richardson, Carly W. Butler, Ian Alcock, Annie Tindley, David Shef eld and Piran C. L. White 38 Good Natured Progress Are We Making Progress? The Chartered Institute for Archaeologists 2024 Conference Sessions on Environment and Heritage Catherine Barnett and Krysia Truscoe 59 Leading the Way: Working Towards Heritage-Led Nature Recovery in Natural England Elaine Willett 63 The Future of the Historic Environment in Forestry in the UK: Maximising Opportunities or Focusing on Impacts? David Robertson, Lawrence Shaw, Edward Peveler and Matt Ritchie 80 Open Habitats, Heritage Opportunities: How the Thetford Forest Open Habitat Plan Can Aid the Management of Archaeology in Woodland Krystyna Truscoe, Naomi Smith and David Robertson 96 Born to Re-Wild: Archaeology and the Water Network in England Thomas Dew and Matthew Town 108 Fields, foreshore and forest – international case studies Unveiling Agricultural Heritage: Mapping Historical Features in Farming Landscapes Marina López Sánchez 122 From Firestick to Satellites: Technological Advancement and Indigenous Cultural Practice in Managing Forest Fires in Australia Harikesh Singh and Sanjeev Kumar Srivastava 143 Establishing Historical Shoreline Trends for Adaption of Maritime Built Heritage to Climate Change Part 2: The Northern Kenya Coast Wallace Njiiri, Mugwima Njuguna and Ephraim Wahome 167 Book Review Second-Order Preservation: Social Justice and Climate Action through Heritage Policy Gill Chitty 187 Taylor & Francis takes seriously its commitment to sustainability. 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