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So crude was television in the beginning that the BBC took time to be convinced by John Logie Baird’s invention. Born in Helensburgh on 13 August 1888, Baird enrolled at Glasgow’s Royal Technology Col

A century ago, John Logie Baird demonstrated a working television transmission

I n 1492, Columbus sailed the ocean blue. That, at least, is what the famous rhyme tells us. Memorising such dates is a common experience of being taught history – a cliché superbly lampooned by the w

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Sky History and Sky History Play 14 October Radio DJ and TV presenter Rylan has always been fascinated by history and the supernatural. But he had no idea of the central role his home county of Essex

It’s time to wrap up our rewatch of the second series of Fortean TV. And to think the unthinkable: are the zany graphics, Fanthorpe’s gnomic utterances and the surface level treatment of both the seri