In-depth

Travel back to 1956 as the BBC celebrates 20 years of television

A glowing biography – nearer a hagiography – of General David Sarnoff, published in 1966 to celebrate 40 years of NBC

A 1955 opportunity to sneer at American television

The not-so-simple process of getting the output of the cameras to your TV screen in 1967

Television is coming soon and, the Nottingham Journal decides, the Baird system is the one to bet on

Pete Singleton travels back to 1958 to find out what was making waves in television

Over on our Thames Television sub-site, Gary Rodger takes us on a journey to Thames in 1984 as the management put out an emergency service when the staff go on strike

Scottish television director Haldane Duncan’s autobiography

How the four American networks – ABC, CBS, Mutual and NBC – covered the assassination of President Kennedy

Lord Hill of Luton on ending the Toddlers’ Truce and handing £750,000 to ITV