Gobsmacked! The British Invasion of American English. By Ben Yagoda. Princeton University Press; 288 pages; $24.95 and £20 British intellectuals enjoy bewailing the influx of Americanisms into the ...

Computer Weekly is marking its 50th anniversary this year with a series of articles celebrating 50 years of British technology innovation. In this article, we look back at the years before 1966, when ...

If you grew up in America, the early history of home computers in the UK might not be familiar to you. But Great Britain produced innovative personal computers that were as equally successful and ...