The Birth of Broadcasting: The History of Broadcasting in the United Kingdom Volume I

 The Birth of Broadcasting: The History of Broadcasting in the United Kingdom Volume I Format: Hardcover 1961 Condition:  Like new interior-no visible wear Dust cover in pristine shape protected by brodart archival covering Rare Book Author: Asa Briggs Publication Date:1961 Publisher:  Oxford University Press Summary: For Broadcast history buffs and Anglophiles:  This is the first part of a five-volume history of broadcasting in the UK. Together the volumes give an authoritative account of the rise of broadcasting in this country. Though naturally largely concerned with the BBC it does give a general history of broadcasting, not simply an institutional history of the BBC. The Birth of Broadcasting covers early amateur experiments in wireless telephony in America and in England, the pioneer days at Writtle in Essex and elsewhere, and the coming of organized broadcasting and its rapid growth during the first four years of the BBC's existence as a private Company before it becam