Join Chearsley Historical Society for this presentation by Dr David Kenyon, a senior historian at Bletchley Park, who’ll tell us about the key role played by their code-breakers in achieving victory for the Allies in WW2.
Bletchley Park housed the Government Code and Cypher School (GC&CS) and was responsible for breaking the secret codes of the Axis Powers – most notably the German Enigma and Lorenz ciphers – which had been thought to be unbreakable. Dr Kenyon’s talk will cover the early development of computers (‘Bombes’) which were originally smuggled out of Poland before the war and how these were refined by Alan Turing and Gordon Welchman to become highly efficient means of intercepting and interpreting enemy communications, often before the intended recipients had seen them. The talk will also give an overview of the development of more sophisticated decryption computers, especially the first programmable computer ‘Colossus’.
The talk is £5 on the door, or free for members of Chearsley Historical Society.
Spaces can be booked by emailing jnh@dbmc.co.uk
