‘The Latest Phone’: What Our Ancestors Made Of The First Telephone Boxes

In the 1920s, hundreds of peculiar cream-coloured cubicles with eye-catching red doors first appeared on British pavements. My article ‘Verminous Receptacles’ on the practical, humorous and criminal ways in which the public reacted to so-called ‘telephone cabinets’ is out today in Discover Your Ancestors periodical online!

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