Use our comprehensive, cross-collection search to discover more about the telecommunications artefacts held by the Connected Earth partners museums, our learning resources and oral history interviews.
The collection
Artefacts
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.
