Last month, academic historians and heritage professions gathered at Scotney Castle, Kent, for ‘A Workshop in Ruins’. Funded by the Royal Historical Society and hosted by The National Trust, this two-day event brought together museum and heritage site curators, ecologists, art, architectural, and documentary historians to consider the changing uses and perceptions of ruins in and with their surroundings. In this post, Claire Kennan reports on the workshop, its findings and the project's development of online resources for heritage professions working with architectural ruins.