Sorry if this question has been beaten to death, and sorry if this isn't the right forum in which ask.

I am interested in a detailed history of how BA's longhaul (747/777/787/A380/etc.) cabin and IFE offerings have evolved over the years. This is what I know:

The business class offering was simply known as "Club" in the 1980s. The first "Club World" offering, with cradle seats, was introduced in 1995/96. The second generation (New Club World) was introduced in 1999. The third generation (Next Gen Club World, included an in-flight pantry with nibbles for in between meal services) was introduced in 2006, and I think I recall more 747-400s getting retrofitted with it in 2007.

The original First was rolled out onto BA's original 747-400s in 1990. The second generation was rolled out in 2010 on 777-300ERs, A380s and I think some of the 747-400s (though I haven't kept close track these days). The third generation was introduced last year on the 787-9s.

As for IFE. My research has shown that some time in 2002/03, WT seats in the 747-400s had the mainscreen IFE replaced by seatback TVs; more specifically Rockwell Collins' TES with 12 audio and 12 video channels (I think only the 777-200ERs got 18 channels). When the 747-400s got retrofitted with NGCW in 2007, the TES systems got upgraded with AVOD. However, I haven't flown BA longhaul since 2007, and I think there have been three or four separate upgrades to longhaul IFE since then: for the 747-400, the 777-200ER, the 777-300ER, plus the A380s and the new 787-8 and 787-9s. If I recall, the absolute newest IFE for BA longhaul is the Panasonic eX3.

As you can see, there are a lot of holes in my information that I want to fill. BA history is something about which I really enjoy learning. Could the kind members of BA's Flyertalk board point me to the right places to get this information?

Just as an aside, I'll tell you my experiences flying BMED, BA's old MENASA arm that was purchased by bmi and then folded. I flew BMED twice: once in 2006, and again in 2007, flying from London Heathrow to Addis Ababa (via Alexandria/Borg el-Arab in 2006 and via Beirut in 2007); both times on the A321. With the stopover for fuel, each flight in the round trip spanned 10 hours, and I think at the time BMED's LHR-ADD flights were the longest flights of any A321 route. Anyway, in 2006, the A321 I flew to Ethiopia had seatback TVs just like the 744s, but the outbound leg only had overhead TVs; that made for a very long, boring 10-hour flight. The next year, the A321 I was on (I think it was G-MEDG) was upgraded to TES AVOD like on the NGCW 744s.

I'll tell you, I was very sad when BMED was sold to bmi, because bmi was really no-frills compared to BA. At the time, bmi didn't even allow outside food or drink on board. However, that point was eventually moot, because after a few years (with the flight numbers of BD912/913 and then BD902/903, switching between using Amman and Beirut as a stopover), BA shut down bmi's LHR-ADD service upon acquiring the airline in 2012, and now there's only 7 flights between the UK and Ethiopia per week (ET700/701). I do wonder why BA shut down that route. Perhaps there weren't enough gates at Heathrow to accommodate it. (Hasn't there been a 20-year debate about expanding Heathrow?)