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Fabric of communications

Telecommunications has been one of the biggest businesses of the past 100 years. This journey tells the story of some of the people and organisations involved.

Building the networks

Building the networks

Telegraph, telephone, wireless and mobile: the story of how the various communication networks were constructed over the last two hundred years or so.

Keeping the network running

Keeping the network running

'We are not interested in the possibilities of failure - they do not exist,' Queen Victoria once said. There are possibilities of failure in...

Telecomms communities

Telecomms communities

Telecommunications was the cutting edge business of the late 19th century and the foremost growth industry of the past 100 years. From zero ...

Buildings and places

Buildings and places

If you want to see the physical monument to the history of telecommunications in Britain, just look around you ... Telegraph, telephone and ...


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