The IPS has arranged a visit to BT Archives for the afternoon of Monday the 7th of November 2016, from 14:00 to approx 16:00 (but perhaps later). This event is for members ONLY.

There is a maximum of 25 visitors permitted. More information and important details are printed on the issued tickets. Please read that information.

For security reasons, BT needs a full list of attendees one week before the visit, and so the booking list closes on 01/11/2016. Please also bring photographic proof of identity and proof of address.

Nearest tube stations:
Holborn (Central and Piccadilly lines)
Chancery Lane (Central Line)

BT Archive info.

BT's Archives are recognised by UNESCO and Arts Council England as a uniquely significant part of their global scientific and cultural heritage. For more about BT heritage as the World's oldest communications company visit www.bt.com/archives and www.bt.com/bthistory.

The archive holds research reports and memoranda document over a century of the achievements of British telecommunications engineers and scientists in pushing the boundaries of communications technology. Advances in thermionic valves, transistors, radio communications, television broadcasting and transmission, satellite technology, digital transmission, optical fibres, lasers, integrated circuits, videoconferencing, videophones, research into early wideband/broadband technologies such as radio waveguide are only some of the subjects covered by the research reports and memoranda.

BT Archives also partnered the British Film Institute and the British Postal Museum and Archive in successfully nominating the work of the GPO Film Unit, 1933 -1940.

The pioneering GPO Film Unit produced one of the finest British collections of documentary, public information, animation and industrial film ever to come from a single UK source. The unit lasted for just seven years yet its films set the trend for generations that followed and its impact spread the world over. Its iconic films, many of which introduced new communications technologies of the time to an astonished public, have proved to have an everlasting popularity and appeal that hasn't dwindled in over 75 years.

The organisers (the Institute of Professional Sound and or IPS Trading Limited) may find, for many reasons, that it is necessary to change or amend the intended schedule and or facilities or even, without liability, cancel the event. Any known changes or amendments will be published on this site, and where or when possible registered attendees will be notified by email. Membership of the Institute is a requirement for this event. Any non-members booking for this event will have their tickets cancelled without notice and if any attempt is made to attend entry will be refused.

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