🧊 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. @exploreyourarchive.bsky.social

It’s great to be included in The National Archives’ Year in Archives 2025 for the work we completed publishing interviews with former workers of the Digital Equipment Corporation in collaboration with @readingmuseum.bsky.social and The National Museum of Computing. #AYearinArchives #OralHistory

Adrian, our Public Relations and Communications Manager, has selected this conversation with Eva Pascoe, a cybercafe trailblazer. Remember them? Discover the reasons behind his choice and learn about the well-known personalities she introduced to the digital world!

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.

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

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! 🤩 🛍️ 💳

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 🎙️

To celebrate our decade milestone, CEO Tola Sargeant shares why her top pick is our interview with tech innovator Duane Jackson 🎤

Trustee Mike Short's top pick from our archives is the oral history chat with UK space tech expert Prof. Sir Martin Sweeting. 🌌 #SpaceInnovation

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 👇

For our 10th birthday, Trustee Bill Dutton shares his favourite interview from our archives, our most popular, the trailblazing Dame Stephanie ‘Steve’ Shirley 🎙️

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?

IHR Director Professor Claire Langhamer @clairelanghamer.bsky.social has written about today’s History Day #histday25 here at Senate House, and how it reflects the crucial work of @ihr.bsky.social in supporting historical research in all its forms. Read more here! www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...

Happy History Day! 🥳 If you are wondering how we can help you with your tech research project, look no further 👀 @senatehouselib.bsky.social @ihr.bsky.social #HistDay25

💡 On 2 November 1897, Nikola Tesla patented the electrical transformer. He described it as 'a novel form of transformer or induction-coil... in which the energy of the source is raised to a much higher potential for transmission over the line than has ever been practically employed heretofore' ⚡

1 week to go until History Day - don't forget to sign up! Read about why History Day is such a fantastic event in this blog by Claire Langhamer: buff.ly/ySfBuWR #HistDay25 @senatehouselib.bsky.social

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. @exploreyourarchive.bsky.social

⚡ 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. @exploreyourarchive.bsky.social

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

🌓 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. @exploreyourarchive.bsky.social

📡 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) @exploreyourarchive.bsky.social

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.

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.

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. @exploreyourarchive.bsky.social

🍰 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.

⚡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

💽 Ferranti was a key UK electrical engineering firm, known for defence electronics, power grids, and the Ferranti Mark 1, the first commercial computer. It had training schools where apprentices wore brown dust-coats. Photo courtesy of Science Museum Group Collection Online. #EYAEducation

People working in the warehouse at Digital, Galway Ireland, packaging computer hardware for delivery to customers. American tech firm Digital (or DEC as it was also known) operated a factory in Galway which ran from 1971-1993. Image thanks to Digital Galway 💻

September is the month of education @exploreyourarchive.bsky.social and what better time to share the *free* teaching resources we have for you to use in the classroom, assembly or home education setting 👨‍🏫 #EYAEducation

Professor Sir Martin Sweeting preparing UoSAT-2 for thermal vacuum testing in 1983 🛰️ @exploreyourarchive.bsky.social

📢🎓Primary teachers! 👀 Check out our primary Computing Curriculum resources - now including complete lesson plans for Year 1 through 6, as well as themed whole school activities. All designed to be user-friendly and freely available for teachers 👉 bit.ly/4gkHSg4 #CSEd #EduSky #TeamCompSci #STEM

🤔 What advice would you give a young person starting out in the tech industry today? At Archives of IT, we are grateful to the many inspirational tech leaders who have shared their advice with young people as they look back on their own careers in conversation with us... see the archive for more!

It is with great sadness we share Roger Graham OBE, founder of Archives of IT, passed away on Friday 8 August. Our thoughts are with Roger’s wife Irene, family and friends. Roger founded us in 2015 after a 60 year career in IT. Find out more in our tribute below. archivesit.org.uk/roger-graham...

We are sad to hear of the death of Dame Stephanie Shirley. We had the privilege to interview her about her life and achievements in 2017. Listen to her interview below. We remember her as a information technology pioneer, businesswoman and philanthropist. archivesit.org.uk/interviews/d...

We are deeply saddened to learn the news of the passing of Academy Fellow Dame Stephanie Shirley. A pioneering tech entrepreneur, philanthropist and icon for gender equality, she will continue to be an inspiration to many. Watch her Engineering Hero film here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=2_HU...

💡For History Day North, find out how we can help you with your research project on the history of IT, telecommunications and computing. See our showcase exhibitions.london.ac.uk/s/history-da... @ihr.bsky.social @senatehouselib.bsky.social #DCDC25

Only a week to go until #HistDayNorth 2025! We can't wait to showcase our collection of oral history interviews with tech pioneers to more students, researchers & budding historians. Check out this video from last year for an introduction to our archive & start exploring: bit.ly/40yqLRo. #DCDC25

Last month, AIT CEO Tola Sargeant had the privilege of sitting down with a true #spacetech pioneer, Professor Sir Martin Sweeting at Surrey Satellite Technology, to hear his inspiring story. Follow the link to our website, or subscribe to our YouTube channel, to watch the interview 👉 bit.ly/45fi9l6

We are delighted to share a personal story on the mobile phone revolution from founding MD of Cellnet John Carrington. Here, John takes us back to the late 1980s when he was part of delegations that secured a pan-European agreement on a mobile network standard. 👉 archivesit.org.uk/blog-2/the-m...

📢 Calling all teachers & parents... looking for a summer activity for 7-11 year-olds that is tech-related but doesn't involve screen time? Download our free 'Summer of Stories & Discovery' activity booklet & encourage your young people to take on the summer reading challenge! 📚 🙌 bit.ly/46G9OrT

🚀 We’ve launched a tech-themed summer reading challenge in collaboration with @techbooks4kids.bsky.social. 📚 The 𝐒𝐮𝐦𝐦𝐞𝐫 𝐨𝐟 𝐒𝐭𝐨𝐫𝐢𝐞𝐬 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐃𝐢𝐬𝐜𝐨𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐲 is aimed at children aged 7 to 11 and offers screen-free fun over the summer holidays. Please download and share! archivesit.org.uk/wp-content/u...

Our #summerreadingchallenge is launching on Monday! Read more about what to expect www.technologybooksforchildren.org/2025/07/03/s... #BookSky #Technology #ChildrensBooks #EduSky

✳️ AIT is proud to publish the personal stories of 21 former workers of the Digital Equipment Corporation — pioneer of the minicomputer — in collaboration with @readingmuseum.bsky.social and The National Museum of Computing. #TechPioneers #OralHistory ➡️ Read more: archivesit.org.uk/interviews-w...

🏅 The winners of the Digit<all> CODE (Champions of Digital Engineering) Awards have been announced. ✳️ The awards were created to help young digital leaders shine and this year Archives of IT sponsored the inaugural IT Pioneer Award. #STEMEducation ➡️ Read more: archivesit.org.uk/code-award-w...

For International Women in Engineering Day, why not watch this fascinating interview with Mandy Chessell CBE, awarded a CBE for services to engineering and the first woman to be awarded the Silver Medal of the Royal Academy of Engineering 🏅 archivesit.org.uk/interviews/m... ‪@raeng.org.uk‬ #INWED25

Today is mathematician Alan Turing's birthday! 🎂 As well as his achievements at Bletchley during WWII, did you know he also had a hand in one of the first computer programmes? Find out more below!

Today, let’s take a moment to recognize and celebrate the namesake of our most prestigious award: Alan M. Turing, who was born on this day in 1912. His work cracked the Enigma code, helped win WWII, and laid the groundwork for #AI. More on him, here: amturing.acm.org/amtv.cfm

It is 75 years since the Pilot ACE computer ran its first programme at the National Physical Laboratory in Teddington. Find out more about the history of this early computer with our archivist 👇 @exploreyourarchive.bsky.social ‪@sciencemuseum.org.uk‬ #teamcompsci

We were delighted to support the Enterprise Awards as Impact Partner this year with our CEO Tola Sargeant chairing the Judging Panel & co-hosting the Awards ceremony at Drapers' Hall in London last night. Many congratulations to the winners and finalists all inspiring tech entrepreneurs! 🏆 🚀

This is a good (section of the) video, produced for the launch of the Acorn Archimedes, that explains how a RISC processor works. #TeamCompSci www.youtube.com/watch?v=KKTa...