The history of BT - Further reading

Telecommunications history :a select bibliography

Customers who require information on the history of telecommunications are referred to the following publications:

Histories

Baldwin, FGC, The History of the Telephone in the United Kingdom, London, Chapman & Hall, 1938

Bray, John, The Communications Miracle (Telecommunications Pioneers from Morse to the Information Superhighway), Plenum Press, 1995

BT, A Short History of BT's World, British Telecommunications plc, 1998

Marvin, C, When Old Technologies were New (Thinking about Electric Communications in the Late Nineteenth Century), Oxford University Press, 1988

Perry, CR, The Victorian Post Office (The Growth of a Bureaucracy), Boydell, The Royal Historical Society, 1992

Pitt, Douglas C, The Telecommunications Function in the British Post Office - A Case Study of Bureaucratic Adaption, Saxon House, 1980

Robinson, H, Britain's Post Office (A History of Development from the Beginnings to the Present Day), Oxford University Press, 1953

Solymar, Laszlo, Getting the Message (A History of Communications), Oxford University Press, 1999

Standage, Tom, The Victorian Internet (The Remarkable Story of the Telegraph and the Nineteenth Century's Online Pioneers), Weidenfield & Nicolson, 1998

Equipment

Povey, PJ & Earl, RAJ, Vintage Telephones of the World, Peter Peregrinus Ltd, 1988

Stamp, Gavin, Telephone Boxes, Chatto & Windus, 1989

Privatisation of BT and Liberalisation of the UK Telephone Network

Beesley, Michael E and Laidlow, Bruce, The Future of Telecommunications - An Assessment for the Role of Competition in UK Policy, Institute of Economic Affairs, 1989

Government White Paper - Competition and Choice: Telecommunications Policy for the 1990's, HMSO, 1991

BT, Serving Telecommunications Customers (British Telecommunications plc’s Response to the Government’s Consultative Document, Competition and Choice.....), 1991

Harper, John, Monopoly and Competition in British Telecommunications (The Past, the Present and the Future), Pinter, 1997

Littlechild, SC, Regulation of British Telecommunication's Profitability, HMSO, 1983

Oftel, A Framework for Effective Competition, Consultative Document on the Future of Interconnection and Related Issues, 1994

BT, A Framework for Effective Competition, BT’s Response to Oftel’s Consultative Document of December 1994, 1995

Post Office Engineering Union, The Modernisation of Telecommunications, POEU, 1979

Veljanovski, Cento, Selling the State - Privatisation in Britain, Weidenfield Paperbacks, 1988

Technical

Chapuis, RJ & Amos, EJ Jnr, Electronics, Computers and Telephone Switching (A Book of Technological History) as Volume 2: 1960-1985 of 100 Years' of Telephone Switching, North-Holland Publishing Company, 1990

Smale, PH, Introduction to Telecommunications Systems, Pitman, 1990