Facts and resources to help plan lessons and designed to meet the syllabus requirements for History at Key Stage 3 Unit 1 – Introductory unit 'What’s it all about?' Included are the full podcast transcripts, a timeline, suggested keyword and names for out-of-school activity and the full list of sources and suggested further reading relative to all the individual podcast tracks.
Learning resources
Lesson support material
fun and games
Can you beat our games? Explode equipment to see what's inside, hear the changing sounds of telecommunications, see how telecommunications designs have changed over time or send an e-postacard.
what's on
History of telecommunications in the UK to be digitised in New Connections project - BT Archives, Coventry University and The National Archives to put key photographs and documents online. Find out more...
audio history
Take a trip down memory lane with extracts of the interviews which have been recorded as part of the Connected Earth oral history programme.
featured story
100 years of automatic switching!
In 1912 the GPO installed Britain's first automatic telephone exchange in Epsom.
