The history of BT - Further reading
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
