A HUNDRED YEARS ago on 26 January 1926, in an attic room in London’s Soho (more famous for ladies of the night than technological breakthroughs), a Scottish engineer gave the first public display of p

→ When John Logie Baird demonstrated the first working television set in 1926, a theatre impresario was so worried about the impact on the West End that he offered the scientist £1,000 to throw his de

In spring 1953, Britain was looking forward. After the trauma of the war and its aftermath, people were no longer focused simply on surviving. Thanks in part to the postwar settlement and welfare stat

SFX’s time machine hurls us back to a random month once again

The first thing to decide is what watching TV in the caravan actually means for you. Are you someone who always uses electric hook-up and just wants a simple screen for the occasional evening? Do you

EXPERT VOICE Mark Tully reporting from Delhi in ...