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Bletchley Park

Bletchley Park

Alan Turing

Second World War

Your guide to Alan Turing: the man, the enigma

Wrens operating the Colossus computer at Bletchley Park, 1943

Second World War

Your guide to Bletchley Park, the key WW2 decryption centre

Staff hard at work at Bletchley Park. The people who worked here did so under conditions of utmost secrecy, and with little idea of how their work slotted into the grand scheme of things. (Photo by SSPL/Getty Images)

Bletchley Park: Britain's wartime intelligence factory

Wrens worked as code-breakers at Bletchley Park.

Second World War

Female codebreakers: the women of Bletchley Park

The women of Bletchley Park. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

An example of the Zimmermann Telegram

First World War

The Zimmermann telegram: the telegram that brought America into the First World War

Code-breaking personnel at Bletchley Park, 1943. (Photo by Bletchley Park Trust/SSPL/Getty Images)

The evolution of British code-breaking

A female computer programmer demonstrates a new computer in the 1960s.

The changing role of women in British computing

7 phases of the history of Artificial intelligence

Bletchley Park

WW2 espionage: The spies who surprised me

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