Uncovering the C.O. Stanley Pye Collection: A family business
How do we discover more about the history of media in Britain? Private archives like the C.O. Stanle..
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80 years ago: The opening of the British Television Service
80 years ago today, Alexandra Palace became the birthplace of British television as we know it. -
Biscuits and secret messages: The intriguing history of WW2 BBC technology
Amanda Lynsdale joined us to help catalogue the BBC Collection we acquired in 2012. What she discove.. -
Celebrating 50 years of BBC2
Iain Baird looks back at the launch of BBC2 50 years ago, and explains how Play School accidentally .. -
The last remaining Scophony TV receiver high-speed scanner motor?
Iain Baird reveals the technology behind our latest television collection acquisition, and explains .. -
A look at the BBC’s STC Condenser, or ‘bomb’ microphone
In 1931 a revolutionary type of microphone housed in an unusual sideways teardrop-shaped capsule was.. -
Puppets in the BBC Collection
Iain Logie Baird takes a look at some of the children's television puppets we've acquired .. -
The beginning of the end of black & white television
As TV Licensing announce that there are now fewer than 12,000 black and white TV licensees remaining.. -
Before TV on demand, there was the home videotape revolution
In 1975, the idea of video recording at home was unheard of. But a major development in TV's hi..
