Bletchley Park in the News

The father of computer science was driven to suicide after a 'gross indecency' conviction. His pardon cannot come too soon On Tuesday the honours forfeiture committee re-emerged from the shadows to cut Mr Fred Goodwin down to size. Perhaps the opposite, a reinstatement committee, would be more appropriate for one of the most brilliant and grievously mistreated men of the last century, Alan ...

The best thing that David Miliband could do for the Labour Party would be to shut up, argues Matthew Norman.

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Michael Gove's speech has set the wheels in motion, now the work needs to be done – how teachers can enhance their knowledge of ICT plus share expertise and views My office at The Open University is just down the road from Bletchley Park, the war-time code-breaking centre which now houses the National Museum of Computing . Seventy years ago in this quiet countryside setting, the "father of ...

Bletchley Park is to release four first day covers celebrating Alan Turing's centenary year. The £9.99 covers , which it intends to be restricted to just 500 each, will carry a single 1st class Royal Mail "Turing Bombe" stamp cancelled with a unique first day of issue postmark.

Enigma codebreaker puts his stamp on 2012 Computing pioneer and Enigma codebreaker Alan Turing is to be commemorated next month in a series of limited edition first day covers for stamps designed to celebrate the centenary of his birth and help raise some more funds for the renovation of Bletchley Park.…

For six years, famed mathematician Alan Turing and his code-breaking colleagues laboured secretly to bring an end to the Second World War. Over the years, the ramshackle huts in which they worked were left to rot. Now, with a resurgence of interest, the British historical site is being refurbished and, with it, the memories of their herculean efforts

A building that housed mechanical equipment used by World War II code-breakers has been given Grade II listed status by...

Derelict block seen as birthplace of modern computer processing gains heritage protection To look at, it is a distinctly undistinguished and desolate-looking piece of utilitarian 1940s architecture. There is a failed concrete roof, water seeping in, pigeons nesting and vegetation growing through the cracks in the brickwork. But in context, the long overlooked and derelict Block C at Bletchley ...

The British government has acted to protect a crumbling piece of wartime — and computing — history.The government said Friday that it has given protected status to the derelict Block C at Bletchley Park, ...