What are the best sources for information about the history of telephones, particularly in the UK?
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 an
