A downloadable copy of English Heritage's 2004 Practical Conservation Guidelines for Successful Hospitality Events in Historic Houses from Collections Link. This booklet includes advice on loans, insurance and statutory responsibilities to consider as well as a checklist of guidelines to help prevent damage to historic interiors and collections during the course of holding public events.

BBC audio news report remarking upon the receipt by Sir Walter Scott's family home of lottery funding from the Heritage Lottery fund.

The Heritage Lottery Fund has today announced confirmation of funding for four projects in Scotland, Wales and England: 'Sir Walter Scott’s home, ‘Abbotsford’, in the Borders; Newbridge Memorial Hall in Caerphilly; a Tudor dwelling house known as ‘The Walronds’ in Devon; and the 18th-century Wrest Park in Bedfordshire. Initial support has also been awarded for projects in Staffordshire, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Suffolk and Worcestershire'. Read the full press release here.

A copy of research conducted by the Collections Trust and Flow Associates, providing an overview of practitioners’ experience of the changes that digital material and technology have brought, and of the changing needs of users.

A copy of the recently published discussion paper by Defra.

The official flickr stream of the National Trust's Stowe Landscape Gardens.

A copy of the guidebook for Madresfield Court written by John de la Cour and downloaded from www.elmley.org.uk.

A scholarly blog aimed at keeping everyone interested in garden history up to speed with all the exciting discoveries being made as further counties are researched as part of the Historic Gardens & Landscapes of England project based at the University of Bristol.

The Warburg Institute Iconographic Database contains digitised images from the Institute's Photographic Collection and Library.