The Institute of Sound and Communications Engineers has a long history.
A meeting of eight public address traders and contractors took place on 21st April 1948 at the premises of National Sound Reproducers in Ealing Road, Wembley Middlesex.
The eight parties present formed a trade body named the Association of Public Address Engineers, and known as APAE .
An inaugural meeting of the Institute of Sound and Communications Engineers was held at the Royal Festival Hall, London on 22nd November 1979.