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UK Charity capturing the stories of tech pioneers & inspiring future #STEM leaders. Online archive of oral history interviews with tech leaders from 1950s to today & free computing curriculum resources for teachers.
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Together we have raised £14,352 with the @biggiveorg Christmas Challenge! 🤩 Thank you to the AKO Foundation and all our generous supporters. There is still time today to donate to our work and get us closer to our target!
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December 9, 2025 at 11:26 AM
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Wow! Thanks to your amazing support, we’ve reached £12,790 — that’s 76% of our goal! And because of the #ChristmasChallenge, every donation has been doubled. 💚

We’re not done yet! There’s still time to double your difference by donating before midday tomorrow, Tuesday 9 December bit.ly/4iF44Tj ✨ 🙏
December 8, 2025 at 9:07 AM
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🚀 We’re halfway through the Big Give #ChristmasChallenge! 🎁🎁

Thanks to your generosity, we’ve raised £5,650 so far & every penny has been doubled. 💚

There’s still time to make double the impact before 9 December.

For more information & to donate see: bit.ly/4iF44Tj ✨ 🙏
December 5, 2025 at 11:16 AM
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The Big Give #ChristmasChallenge begins! For one week donations to us on the Big Give site will be matched £1 for £1, doubling your impact. Our aim? £16,800 to support our mission 'Capturing the past to inspire the future.' Thanks to pledgers and The AKO Foundation
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December 2, 2025 at 4:38 PM
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🧊 Early cube offices at the Digital offices in Galway, Ireland. DEC's first plant outside the USA opened there in 1971 and closed in 1993. Today, open plan offices are popular. Anyone remember working in a cube?
Image thanks to Digital Galway.
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An office space divided by temporary walls into cubes. Each cube contains a desk with a PC and files, documents and books.
November 28, 2025 at 3:37 PM
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We’re excited to join Big Give’s #ChristmasChallenge from 2–9 December. Your donation to Archives of IT will be doubled, enhancing our efforts to preserve tech heritage and inspire future STEM leaders. 💚 Thanks to our Pledgers and Big Give Champion, AKO Foundation, for their support.
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November 25, 2025 at 1:39 PM
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Our trustee Martin Campbell-Kelly highlights his top oral history interview from the last decade. Hint: He unveiled Colossus's vital role in computing history. #ComputingHistory #OralHistory
November 24, 2025 at 12:46 PM
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In celebration of our decade milestone, our archivist Stephanie shares her top oral history interview. Hint: it's all about shopping and finding great deals! 🤩 🛍️ 💳
November 21, 2025 at 1:29 PM
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Since 2015, we've been capturing the stories of tech trailblazers. Trustee Tim Gregory's top pick is the memorable chat with legendary innovator Sir Clive Sinclair 🎙️
November 19, 2025 at 2:58 PM
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To celebrate our decade milestone, CEO Tola Sargeant shares why her top pick is our interview with tech innovator Duane Jackson 🎤
November 17, 2025 at 2:52 PM
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Trustee Mike Short's top pick from our archives is the oral history chat with UK space tech expert Prof. Sir Martin Sweeting. 🌌 #SpaceInnovation
November 14, 2025 at 3:16 PM
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Our Education Lead, Ravi Chagger, selected Sir Robin Saxby, ARM's founding CEO and a strong supporter of AIT's educational efforts, from a decade of interviews. Find out why 👇
November 10, 2025 at 11:16 AM
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For our 10th birthday, Trustee Bill Dutton shares his favourite interview from our archives, our most popular, the trailblazing Dame Stephanie ‘Steve’ Shirley 🎙️
November 7, 2025 at 9:32 AM
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We are 10! 🎂
To celebrate we will be sharing our favourite oral history interviews throughout November. Here Chairman John Carrington introduces his. What would your favourite be?
November 6, 2025 at 9:01 AM
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Happy History Day! 🥳
If you are wondering how we can help you with your tech research project, look no further 👀
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November 4, 2025 at 10:36 AM
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English Electric's Stafford site was a key UK tech hub in the mid-20th century. Acquired by GEC in 1968 and Alstom in 1989, it was bought and demolished by General Electric in 2015, now replaced by housing. Photo: Express & Star Newspapers, Wolverhampton Archives.
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A black and white aerial view of a large factory. A railway line is to the south and to the north is a housing estate and fields.
October 31, 2025 at 12:04 PM
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⚡ Ferranti's Greater Manchester factory produced transformers and meters from 1905, playing a key role in the establishment of the National Grid. Despite having international clients, their Transformer Division closed in 1975. Photo: @sciencemuseum.org.uk.
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A black and white photograph of the inside of a factpry, showing large transistors and components. The building has large windows down one side, and exposed metal beams and joists.
October 27, 2025 at 11:03 AM
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Marconi established the UK's first radio factory in Chelmsford, Essex in 1912 and later set up research labs in Great Baddow in 1939. This Essex Record Office photo shows the labs camouflaged, taken for the Home Office ARP in November 1939, two months into WWII. @exploreyourarchive.bsky.social
A black and white photograph of a building draped in camouflaged netting. A red stamp to the right says 'SECRET'.
October 25, 2025 at 11:02 AM
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🌓 Professor Sir Martin Sweeting, Queen Elizabeth II, and UoSAT-12 at Surrey Satellite Technology in 1999.
The UoSAT-12 mission highlighted innovations like imaging cameras and internet expansion to space. Its 'Firsts' include capturing a lunar eclipse in 2000.
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A white man wearing a lab coat and hat, stood in front of a satellite, demonstrating it to a white woman in a green velvet hat, holding a handbag and a white man in a shirt and tie, white coat and hairnet. They are all in a lab.
October 22, 2025 at 2:07 PM
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📡 Jodrell Bank's MKII radio telescope, made by Ferranti was the first telescope of any type in the world to be controlled by a digital computer, the Ferranti Argus 100.
1966 Photograph thanks to @sciencemuseum.org.uk Collection Online. (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0)
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Two radio telescopes outside an observatory, surrounded by trees.
October 17, 2025 at 3:13 PM
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English mathematician Ada Lovelace, is celebrated as the first computer programmer. @adalovelaceday.bsky.social honours women's STEM achievements in her memory. We've created a free educational lesson plan archivesit.org.uk/lesson-plans.... Engraving courtesy of the National Portrait Gallery.
An engraving of a woman in a floral dress and shawl, holding a fan by William Henry Mote, after Alfred Edward Chalon stipple engraving, published 1839 NPG D5123, thanks to the National Portrait Gallery.
October 14, 2025 at 10:05 AM
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Fancy a brew? ☕ An employee at Birmingham tech firm Deltacam Systems uses CAD software to design a jug kettle. The PC monitor is by US company SiliconGraphics. Deltacam Systems was based in Aston Park in the 1990s. Photo courtesy of Express & Star Photo Archives at Wolverhampton Archives.
A white man wearing a light coloured shirt and dark tie using a PC to design a plastic kettle using CAD software
October 10, 2025 at 10:02 AM
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Happy 60th Birthday BT tower, inaugurated by British PM Harold Wilson on this day in 1965, the tallest UK building until 1980. Here our Chairman John Carrington, poses for a photo on the roof of his office in Howland Street, 1984. He was the first MD of BT Cellnet.
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A white man with short fair hair in a side parting stood holding an early mobile phone, in front of a large tower. There are dishes at the top of the tower, which looks like a large antenna.
October 8, 2025 at 2:50 PM
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🍰 LEO (Lyons Electronic Office) was the first computer used for business, developed by UK firm J. Lyons & Co Ltd, known for tea shops and cakes. They needed to automate their payroll, marking the beginning of computers in business. Photo courtesy of the Modern Records Centre, University of Warwick.
A photograph showing the set up of LEO including where the power supply, circuits, store and input and output equipment should be.
October 6, 2025 at 2:16 PM
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⚡English Electric's London HQ in Aldwych housed two bronze giants, 'Power' and 'Speed,' by Sir Charles Wheeler. Sold to an American bank in 1971, they were returned as 'unacceptable' due to their realism. Now at Eltham College. Photo: Express & Star Newspapers, Wolverhampton Archives. #EYAMonsters
Two naked bronze giants atop a building entrance which says 'English Electric'. Each statue holds aloft a creature from the natural world, a lion and an eagle and represent power and speed.
October 1, 2025 at 1:57 PM