Computer History Books by CCS Members

A list of books, many of which are related to CCS Projects past and present, all of which have been penned by leading members of the Society.

ICL, A Business and Technical History

 Martin Campbell-Kelly Out of print but available via “print on demand” from Oxford University Press
 
An ICL Anthology Another ICL Anthology
Hamish Carmichael

Out of print but available online here and here

The author was collecting material for a proposed third volume which will include not only the wit and wisdom of ICL as before, but also that of the Computer Conservation Society.

This work will be continued by others. Please feel free to send further humorous or scurrilous anecdotes to

 

Alan Turing and his Contemporaries

Simon Lavington [ed],
Chris Burton,
Martin Campbell-Kelly &
Roger Johnson 		Published by BCS.
 

The Turing Guide

 jack Copeland and others Published by Oxform University Press.
 

Alan Turing’s Manchester

 Jonathan Swinton Published by Infang Publishing but available from manturing.net.
 

A History of Manchester Computers

 Simon Lavington Out of print - available second hand.
 

Early British Computers

 Simon Lavington Out of print but available on the Web.
 

Colossus 1943 - 1996

 Tony Sale Available from the National Museum of Computing.
 

The Harwell Dekatron Computer

 Kevin Murrell &
Delwyn Holroyd 		Available from the National Museum of Computing.
 

Moving Targets: Elliott-Automation and the Dawn of the Computer Age in Britain, 1947 67

 Simon Lavington Published by Springer.
 

Early Computing in Britain Ferranti Ltd. and Government Funding, 1948 – 1958

 Simon Lavington Published by Springer.
 

Early Home Computers

 Kevin Murrell Published by Bloomsbury.
 

The Pegasus Story. A History of a Vintage British Computer

 Simon Lavington Out of print but known to be available in remainder bookshops.
 

Pegasus the Seminal Early Computer

 Hugh McGregor Ross  
 

The Cogwheel Brain: Charles Babbage and the quest to build the first computer

 Doron Swade Published by Little Brown.
 

The Dream Machine - Exploring the Computer Age

 Doron Swade &
Jon Palfreman 		Available secondhand.
 

Charles Babbage and His Calculating Engines

 Doron Swade  
 

The Story of the Computer

 Stephen J. Marshall Published by the author and available on Amazon.
 

Making the History of Computing Relevant

 Tilly Blyth[ed] Roger Johnson[ed],
Charles H. Lindsey, David Holdsworth,
Chris Burton, Andrew Herbert,
David Hartley, Kevin Murrell,
and others 		Published by Springer.
 

Archaeology of Algorithmic Artefacts

 David Link Published by The University of Minnesota Press.
 

The ICL 2900 Series

 John Buckle Long out of print, but now available at www.ancientgeek.org.uk/EMAS/Miscellaneous/The_ICL_2900_Series.pdf.
 

Milestones in Analog and Digital Computing

 Herbert Bruderer Published by Springer in an english translation.
 
The History of Computing
A Very Short Introduction 		Doron Swade Published by Oxford University Press.
 
Making IT Work
(conference proceedings) 		Martin Campbell-Kelly (Ed.) Published by British Computer Society & National Museum of Computing
Out of print but available online here.
 
Collecting and Conserving Computers Suzanne Keen and Doron Swade [Eds.] Published by National Museum of Science & Industry
Out of print but available online here.