8 CONTEXT 189 : SEPTEMBER 2026 recent very carefully complete work appears to bear this out. Illustrations show the contractors’ painstaking replication of the exposed aggregate cladding panels. Construction History Construction History (No 2,Vol 40, 2025) continues to promote a broad international outlook. Papers include one on the career of a German contractor in late19th-century Australia, and another on concrete-testing standards and certification in the USA from the late 1880s to the 1920s. One paper that may be of particular interest to Context readers deals with historic technical illustrations, particularly when assessing the information in early textbooks and treatises. Tom F Peters attempts to explain, with 19 well-chosen engravings, the origins of the dichotomy between the architectural and engineering professions (which many readers familiar with the work of Andrew Saint will recognise). This is a complex and challenging issue to encompass in a single paper, so the author focuses on the situation in France in the 17th and 18th centuries, where engineers were able to explain and communicate technical information with clear graphic representations while also leading to a new professional language. The paper is part of a wider study that Peters is currently undertaking on French engineering illustrations of that era. It is to be hoped that his exploration will benefit those researching the early technology of historic building and engineering to inform appropriate current responses to the care and repair of historic buildings and structures. Historic Environment Policy and Practice The latest, 215-page issue of Historic Environment Policy and Practice (Vol 17, No 1, 2026) has a largely international perspective, with papers from China, Qatar and Turkey. Those of greatest interest to Context readers may be ones on mental health and wellbeing related to heritage; and perhaps on the fall-out from the demolition for the ballroom at the White House in Washington. The first paper, by Faye Sayer, R Sayer, M Pickel and L Henry of the department of history at the University of Birmingham, demonstrates the application of science to heritage practice and policy, and tests this as a mechanism to strengthen equality in heritage places. The authors cite a mechanism known as the Behaviour Change Wheel, widely applied in public healthcare settings, which has been adapted to design-policybased strategic action plans, with the aim of improving mental health in a heritage context. The authors use a feasibility study example to understand how participation in heritage affects visitor and community wellbeing. Only the Trump White House could generate the concepts of deheritagization and re-heritagization (destroying old heritage and replacing it with ‘new heritage’), happening in parallel over the massive remaking of the East Wing Ballroom in terms of its substance, scale, style and significance (in every sense). Author Marc Richard Hugh Kosciejew of the University of Malta refers to this as marking a pre-Trump, peri-Trump and postTrump aesthetic. The architectural and cultural perceptions of the White House itself will certainly be changed by these extremely contentious works. It is to be hoped that these concepts do not materialise on a wider front and are confined only to the brazen capriciousness of the current president. Heritage Now Worth noting in the latest issue of Heritage Now, the newsletter of Historic Buildings and Places (No 15, Summer 2026), is an article by Naomi O’Toole on high-profile conservation projects that draw attention to the spa towns of Europe. Some of the finest examples now form a shared Unesco inscription with the Great Spa Towns of Europe (GSTE), functioning as a shared inscription and an interconnected whole, even though each town operates under a different system of local management and national government.The umbrella of the GSTE creates a shared governance structure that facilitates collective action. It includes the City of Bath, which has a rare double Unesco inscription, one for the city itself (1987) and the one for the GSTE (2021) – see https:// greatspatownsofeurope.eu/ The summer issue also features a celebration of the centenary of the establishment of Portmeirion Village, where Clough Williams-Ellis purchased the site in Gwynedd, north Wales, in 1925, and opened the Portmeirion Hotel the following year. Bob Kindred MBE 10.7 mm Volume 17 Number 1 2026 The Historic Environment POLICY & PRACTICE POLICY & PRACTICE The Historic Environment ISSN 1756-7505 Volume 17 Number 1 2026 ISSN 1756-7505 www.tandfonline.com/yhen The Historic Environment POLICY & PRACTICE Volume 17 Number 1 2026 CONTENTS Editorial Cultural Resource Management: Con ict, Controversy and Cooperation Michael Dawson 1 Research Articles A Chinese Paradigm for Wartime Cultural Heritage Protection:The Case of the Palace Museum’s Cultural Relics Evacuation Bai Yingxi and Shen Huaping 6 Mental Distress at Heritage Places: A Behavioural Science-Based Approach to Wellbeing Inequality Faye Sayer, R. Sayer, M. Pickel and L. Henry 25 Cultural Heritage Management and Policies in Qatar: A Case Study of the Historic Urban Landscape Approach in Education City Muhammed Madandola, Rashid Al-Matwi, Raffaello Furlan and Akel Ismail Kahera 50 Urban Archaeology in a Multi-Layered City: Conservation Challenges and Policy Insights from Istanbul’s Historical Peninsula Nese Karacay and Aynur Çiftçi 86 Crossing Frontiers: Challenges and Opportunities of the Tao-Klarjeti Monasteries as Transboundary Cultural Heritage of Georgia and Türkiye Mustafa Tahir Ocak and Gülsün Tanyeli 125 Demolishing the White House East Wing: A Heritagization Analysis of Anocratic Cultural Heritage Aesthetics and Trump’s ‘Big, Beautiful Ballroom’ Marc Richard Hugh Kosciejew 146 Including Built Heritage in Environmental Improvement and Nature Recovery: Exploring the Challenges Martin A. Coombes, M. Michette and H. A. Viles 184 HERMES SA: A Proposal for a European Satellite Account for Cultural Material Heritage Jon Olaskoaga-Larrauri, Elena Usobiaga, Alessandra Gandini and Amaia Sopelana 198 Taylor & Francis takes seriously its commitment to sustainability. In addition to all paper used in our journals being from certi ed responsible sources, we invest in initiatives that reduce plastic usage, waste, and carbon emissions. To nd out more about our progress, visit www.taylorandfrancis.com/about/corporate-responsibility/ YHEN_COVER_17_1.indd 1 4/27/2026 7:48:20 AM
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