This subscription year the IHBC marks a quarter of a century as a professional body supporting and accrediting interdisciplinary built and historic environment conservation specialists, and now we’ve launched the #IHBC25’s digital hub webpage to tie it all together.
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The IHBC has launched the digital platform for #IHBC25, featuring links to news, events and projects tied to the silver anniversary, as we look back on our heritage to better plan ahead for our future.
IHBC Director Sean O’Reilly said: ‘Our new – and accessible – digital hub will form the communications and network infrastructure of our 25th anniversary, #IHBC25, and support its legacy.’
… use the resources below to inspire ideas and encourage actions…
‘You can use the resources below to inspire ideas and encourage actions, and email your thoughts and proposals to Jude Wheeler, our Branch Support Officer, at support@ihbc.org.uk. Or you can just post them on your social media platforms, tagged with #IHBC25, and we’ll pick them up and pass them on.’
… a year of activities and events to mark the IHBC’s 25th…
IHBC’s President Mike Brown and IHBC Chair David McDonald, representing the IHBC’s Council and Board respectively, said: ‘We’re delighted to welcome the launch of a year of activities and events to mark the IHBC’s 25th and silver anniversary, #IHBC25.’
… David Lovie on the ‘Agony and the Ecstasy of creating the IHBC’…
- See more background and get more inspiration, starting with
- David Lovie on the ‘Agony and the Ecstasy of creating the IHBC‘ (2007)
- Our 10th Anniversary Context, and
- Context issues from 1997, the year of our incorporation:
- Dig in deeper with our AGM Papers (‘Corporate Papers’ tab) and 2002 Business Plan
- Then, as we went digital, check out the following links for some key developments:
- Our Annual School digital resources, starting with 2005 (York)
- Our first IHBC Recognised Course: Plymouth (2005)
- Our first NewsBlogs, also from 2007
- The first Gus Astley Student Award ‘announcement’, also from 2008, with award details HERE and first Context notice in September
- The first listed HESPR company is IHBC Enterprises, naturally, as our vote of confidence, but the company on HESPR for longest is The Architectural History Practice (August 2008)
- Our first IHBC E-letter dates from 2009 (it’s now Membership Matters)
- The first Jobs etc. advert was for a Trainee Conservation Officer (Rossendale Borough Council), which went live on 15 October 2010.
- Our earliest Toolbox Research Note still online from 2012, on the ‘Loss of Senior Conservation Staff’
- Our Selfstarter, was a refinement of our WebStarter from 2012, and app, and all updated in 2013
- By 2012 our Jobs etc. service substantially increased its digital reach (2012)
- Our first online Events Calendar posting online is from 2013
- The new ‘mobile first’ website launched in 2014
- Our Toolbox service update announcement from 2015
- The first CPD Circular was in 2020, but its predecessor, the first ‘Branch Event’NewsBlog, appeared in 2018
- Our digital Archive of corporate papers (‘Archive’ tab) has lots more detail
- There’s also an abundance of information on our Branch web pages often historic, with the pages linked below:
