Preface
.The second phase of this Timeline began as a result of our ongoing investigation. It was prompted by a book called Radio Man. It was first published in 2002 by the prestigious British Institution of Electrical Engineers (IEE). This is the same organization that opened its doors on May 23, 1922 for a meeting of various British and American electrical manufacturers and prompted by the British General Post Office, (GPO).
The purpose of that meeting was to meet demands made by the GPO Postmaster General Frederick Kellaway (April 1, 1921-October 19, 1922), to consolidate all requests for wireless telephony broadcasting licences into one, or at the most, two applications. The applicants had to be bone fide electrical manufacturers doing business in the United Kingdom.
After jumping ahead by many decades from the year 1922 to the year 2002, this chronology of events then advanced to the year 2014 before the book 'Radio Man' first came to the attention of the authors of this text. The timing of that introduction was unfortunate, because it was shortly before a scheduled lecture to be given by one of the authors of this site.
The assmbled audience were members and guests of a communications museum. The subject matter of that talk focussed upon the reasons behind the 1964 advent of the British offshore 'pirate' station called 'Radio Caroline'.
However, one paragraph in that 2002 IEE book called 'Radio Man', contradicted all known contemporary published accounts about the reasons why 'Radio Caroline' began broadcasting in 1964. This posed an embarrasing problem for the scheduled speaker.
This conundrum occured on Saturday, October 25, 2014 at a most inconvenient moment in time, because the only way to resolve it was to begin research to uncover the source material behind this clash of information. While most of the statements in the IEE book were supported by documented references, the statement in question remained unsupported. The result was that in 2014, both an apology and detailed explanation at a later date was offered to the mystified audience.
Seven years would then pass before that explanation could be offered, because it took seven years to overcome both lies and obfuscation by persons who did not want this missing information to be found, and certainly not published for anyone to read. But discovery was only partial, and it raised even more questions about the motives behind the ongoing cover-up, in addition to the original admissions in the IEE book that a cover-up had originally taken place in 2002.
An initial report was published in the Spring 2021 edition of 'Transmitting', official journal of the Museum of Communications at Burntiland, Fife, in Scotland. It is called 'The Day I Read page 276: My Knowledge of Radio History Imploded', and it is currently online for everyone to read, free of charge. But that first article published in 2021, was followed by a pause, and then in February 2022, the second article appeared with the title: 'The Story of British Broadcasting Revisited. Part Two: C.O. Stanley's Veil of Secrecy.' It is also online and available to read without cost.
Following on from that article, an ongoing and interlocking series began publication on a quarterly basis. As of this writing, number eleven is awaiting publication. However, due to the wide scope of this subject matter, all of these articles are collectively only a part of a compendium of material which also includes a series of previously published articles in academic journals. All told, years of research can now be summarized and presented in this 'British Broadcasting Chonology'.
See: https://museumofcommunication.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/News-94-Spring-2021-page-order.pdf
See: https://museumofcommunication.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/News-98-February-2022-page-order.pdf
See: https://foundthreads.com/
See: https://web.archive.org/web/20070810200206/http://www.hwa-research.com/
The purpose of that meeting was to meet demands made by the GPO Postmaster General Frederick Kellaway (April 1, 1921-October 19, 1922), to consolidate all requests for wireless telephony broadcasting licences into one, or at the most, two applications. The applicants had to be bone fide electrical manufacturers doing business in the United Kingdom.
After jumping ahead by many decades from the year 1922 to the year 2002, this chronology of events then advanced to the year 2014 before the book 'Radio Man' first came to the attention of the authors of this text. The timing of that introduction was unfortunate, because it was shortly before a scheduled lecture to be given by one of the authors of this site.
The assmbled audience were members and guests of a communications museum. The subject matter of that talk focussed upon the reasons behind the 1964 advent of the British offshore 'pirate' station called 'Radio Caroline'.
However, one paragraph in that 2002 IEE book called 'Radio Man', contradicted all known contemporary published accounts about the reasons why 'Radio Caroline' began broadcasting in 1964. This posed an embarrasing problem for the scheduled speaker.
This conundrum occured on Saturday, October 25, 2014 at a most inconvenient moment in time, because the only way to resolve it was to begin research to uncover the source material behind this clash of information. While most of the statements in the IEE book were supported by documented references, the statement in question remained unsupported. The result was that in 2014, both an apology and detailed explanation at a later date was offered to the mystified audience.
Seven years would then pass before that explanation could be offered, because it took seven years to overcome both lies and obfuscation by persons who did not want this missing information to be found, and certainly not published for anyone to read. But discovery was only partial, and it raised even more questions about the motives behind the ongoing cover-up, in addition to the original admissions in the IEE book that a cover-up had originally taken place in 2002.
An initial report was published in the Spring 2021 edition of 'Transmitting', official journal of the Museum of Communications at Burntiland, Fife, in Scotland. It is called 'The Day I Read page 276: My Knowledge of Radio History Imploded', and it is currently online for everyone to read, free of charge. But that first article published in 2021, was followed by a pause, and then in February 2022, the second article appeared with the title: 'The Story of British Broadcasting Revisited. Part Two: C.O. Stanley's Veil of Secrecy.' It is also online and available to read without cost.
Following on from that article, an ongoing and interlocking series began publication on a quarterly basis. As of this writing, number eleven is awaiting publication. However, due to the wide scope of this subject matter, all of these articles are collectively only a part of a compendium of material which also includes a series of previously published articles in academic journals. All told, years of research can now be summarized and presented in this 'British Broadcasting Chonology'.
See: https://museumofcommunication.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/News-94-Spring-2021-page-order.pdf
See: https://museumofcommunication.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/News-98-February-2022-page-order.pdf
See: https://foundthreads.com/
See: https://web.archive.org/web/20070810200206/http://www.hwa-research.com/
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