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May 30, 2014 HRH The Duchess of Cambridge Visit to Bletchley Park
May 2014
The Duchess of Cambridge will visit Bletchley Park,
on Wednesday 18 June 2014 to mark the completion
of the year-long restoration project, which has restored
the site to its World War Two appearance.
Her Royal Highness will view the restored location, tour
the WW2 Codebreaking Huts and will hear about the
achievements of the Codebreakers whose work is said
to have helped shorten the war by two years.
During the visit, Her Royal Highness will meet
Codebreaker veterans who worked at the Government
Code and Cypher School during WW2, where encrypted
messages sent by the Navy, Army and Air Forces of
Germany and its allies were decrypted, translated and
analysed for vital intelligence.
In our next monthly episode we will take you inside Huts 3
and 6 and the new Block C Visitor Centre with the first
people to see them restored to their wartime glory; the
Veterans themselves. This recording gives you a taste of
some of the reactions at that 1st VIP Preview.
Picture: ©shaunarmstrong/mubsta.com
#BPark, #Bletchleypark, #ww2veteran, #enigma,
#BritishMonarchy
6 min
May 29, 2014 Extra - E36 - Codebreakers’ Legacy - Michael Smith
May 2014
Bestselling author & Bletchley Park Trustee, Michael Smith
discusses the life & work of John Tiltman, whom many
consider may have been Britain’s greatest ever code breaker.
For these highlights we have concentrated on the lesser
known parts of Tiltman’s life, both before & after his time at
Bletchley Park.
This talk was recorded at last year’s sell-out day of talks,
Codebreakers’ Legacy. If you would like to attend a similar
event in the Bletchley Park Presents series, then please go to
http://www.bletchleypark.org.uk/ & look in the What’s On
section.
Picture: ©shaunarmstrong/mubsta.com
#BPark, #BletchleyPark, #Enigma,
#WW1, #WW2, #codebreaker,
#mcfontaine
32 min
May 29, 2014 Bletchley Park Podcast Extra - E36 - Codebreakers’ Legacy - Michael Smith
May 2014
Bestselling author & Bletchley Park Trustee, Michael Smith
discusses the life & work of John Tiltman, whom many
consider may have been Britain’s greatest ever code breaker.
For these highlights we have concentrated on the lesser
known parts of Tiltman’s life, both before & after his time at
Bletchley Park.
This talk was recorded at last year’s sell-out day of talks,
Codebreakers’ Legacy. If you would like to attend a similar
event in the Bletchley Park Presents series, then please go to
http://www.bletchleypark.org.uk/ & look in the What’s On
section.
Picture: ©shaunarmstrong/mubsta.com
#BPark, #BletchleyPark, #Enigma,
#WW1, #WW2, #codebreaker,
#mcfontaine
32 min
May 23, 2014 Velocity Launch - How Bletchley Park Overcame Adversity
May 2014
Bletchley Park CEO Iain Standen has told a new
support hub for businesses how focusing on the
fascinating story of World War Two Codebreaking
helped transform Bletchley Park from a ramshackle,
derelict site into a vibrant heritage attraction.
Velocity, a new growth hub for ambitious small and
medium-sized enterprises across the South East
Midlands, was launched in the newly-restored Block C
Visitor Centre at Bletchley Park on Friday 23 May. It will
help businesses unlock their potential by helping them
to find funding and support. Bletchley Park was the
ideal launch location as it is in the final stages of
completing an £8 million restoration programme;
£5 million in Heritage Lottery Funding and £3 million
match fund raised by the Bletchley Park Trust.
Picture: ©shaunarmstrong/mubsta.com
#BPark, #Bletchleypark, #VelocityGrowth, #MK
6 min
May 16, 2014 Elizabeth Marshall - A Very, Very Secret Place
May 2014
When Elizabeth Marshall, nee Tatham, was recruited
to Bletchley Park in 1944, she was told “This is a
very, very secret place. You must never breathe a
word of what you do here.”
Every one of the ten thousand or so men and women
who worked for the Government Code and Cypher
School, a mixture of military and civilians, was sworn
to lifelong secrecy. During a visit to Bletchley Park,
Elizabeth recalled “We were told ‘your family and
your friends must not know.’ We sat there absolutely
agog, wondering what we had let ourselves in for.”
Her parents died soon before the veil of secrecy was
lifted in 1974. She says “I was absolutely horrified,
I don’t mind telling you. My great friend rang me up
and said ‘Have you heard, they’re talking all about
Bletchley. It’s all over the papers.’ I said ‘What! We
were told never to talk about it.’ I still find it extremely
hard to take in that everything that was locked in my
head for so long is now common knowledge.”
You can hear the full interview with Elizabeth in the
May episode of the Bletchley Park Podcast
https://audioboo.fm/boos/2149628-the-bletchley-park-podcast-e22-a-very-very-secret-place
The Bletchley Park Trust is dependent on Veterans
themselves and their relatives to register for their
rightful place on the Roll of Honour. The Trust is also
in a race against time to gather Veterans’ memories
first hand in its Oral Archive.
http://www.bletchleypark.org.uk/news/v.rhtm/FindaCodebreaker-719559.html
Picture: ©Bletchley Park Trust
#BPark, #Bletchleypark, #ww2veteran, #enigma
4 min
May 14, 2014 Loebner Prize to call Bletchley Park home
May 2014
The Loebner Prize is making Bletchley Park its permanent
home. The competition is modelled on Alan Turing’s
famous test, which suggests that a thinking computer’s
responses would, in conversation, be able to convince a
panel of judges that it is human.
The Loebner Prize was founded and is sponsored by
Dr Hugh Loebner, a New York philanthropist. He says
“The competition is the longest running Turing test.”
Since the competition’s inception in 1991, no computer
has yet managed to win anything other than the Bronze
Medal prize.
The Society for the Study of Artificial Intelligence and
Simulation of Behaviour (AISB), the world’s oldest
Artificial Intelligence society, has this year taken over
the running of the competition, guaranteeing its continued
success. This year’s competition will be held at Bletchley
Park on 15 November.
In addition to the the $100 000 grand prize and gold medal,
the competition offers a $25 000 Silver Medal prize for a
program able to fool a majority of judges, and an annual
Bronze Medal prize to the most human-like computer.
Picture: ©Mubsta
#BPark, #Bletchleypark, #LoebnerPrize, #TuringTest
3 min
May 10, 2014 E22 - A Very, Very Secret Place
May 2014
This month, we learn about the doomed German plans
to invade Britain in 1940 with Historian & founding
member of the Bletchley Park Trust, Peter Wescombe
as we join him in the Bletchley Park Archive.
We also take you to the launch of the biography of
one of Bletchley Park’s lesser known geniuses,
Gordon Welchman. Joel Greenberg has been reading up
on & researching Bletchley Park’s World War Two
history since the 1970s. He is a Volunteer Tour
Guide & works part time at Bletchley Park. His book,
Gordon Welchman, Bletchley Park’s Architect of Ultra
Intelligence, was launched in the Mansion in the
presence of Welchman’s family, who formally handed
over artefacts and documents, some of which had been
in boxes in his son Nick’s loft for 25 years before
Joel started his research.
Get a taste of what’s to come at the Bletchley Park
Presents series of Sunday afternoon talks & hear
from three of the real women of Bletchley Park,
Jean Valentine, Ruth Bourne & Betty Webb in a short
interview with Bremont Watches founder Giles English.
Finally we bring you a Wren’s memories of the
absolute secrecy impressed upon her when she
arrived. Elizabeth Marshall, nee Tatham, who lives
in Ashbourne, Derbyshire, recalls “We were told
your family and your friends must not know.’ We sat
there absolutely agog, wondering what we had let
ourselves in for.”
Picture ©Bletchley Park Trust
#BPark, #BletchleyPark, #Enigma,
#ww2veteran, #Bremont, #mcfontaine
52 min
May 10, 2014 The Bletchley Park Podcast - E22 - A Very, Very Secret Place
May 2014
This month, we learn about the doomed German plans
to invade Britain in 1940 with Historian & founding
member of the Bletchley Park Trust, Peter Wescombe
as we join him in the Bletchley Park Archive.
We also take you to the launch of the biography of
one of Bletchley Park’s lesser known geniuses,
Gordon Welchman. Joel Greenberg has been reading up
on & researching Bletchley Park’s World War Two
history since the 1970s. He is a Volunteer Tour
Guide & works part time at Bletchley Park. His book,
Gordon Welchman, Bletchley Park’s Architect of Ultra
Intelligence, was launched in the Mansion in the
presence of Welchman’s family, who formally handed
over artefacts and documents, some of which had been
in boxes in his son Nick’s loft for 25 years before
Joel started his research.
Get a taste of what’s to come at the Bletchley Park
Presents series of Sunday afternoon talks & hear
from three of the real women of Bletchley Park,
Jean Valentine, Ruth Bourne & Betty Webb in a short
interview with Bremont Watches founder Giles English.
Finally we bring you a Wren’s memories of the
absolute secrecy impressed upon her when she
arrived. Elizabeth Marshall, nee Tatham, who lives
in Ashbourne, Derbyshire, recalls “We were told
your family and your friends must not know.’ We sat
there absolutely agog, wondering what we had let
ourselves in for.”
Picture ©Bletchley Park Trust
#BPark, #BletchleyPark, #Enigma,
#ww2veteran, #Bremont, #mcfontaine
52 min
May 06, 2014 Operation Sealion - A Doomed Venture
May 2014
As the 70th anniversary of D-Day approaches, original
Bletchley Park Trust member & Historian Peter Westcombe,
compares the meticulous planning which preceded the
Normandy landings with the doomed German plot to invade
Britain much earlier in World War Two, Operation SEALION.
You can hear more of this interview with Peter in the next
episode of the Bletchley Park Podcast, out on the 10th of May.
©Crown. Reproduced by kind permission, Director, GCHQ
#BPark, #Bletchleypark, #enigma, #DDay
3 min
April 28, 2014 Bletchley Park Presents - The Real Women of Bletchley Park
April 2014
On the 20th of July 2014, Bletchley Park proudly
presents four women whose diverse roles within
the Government Code and Cypher School during
World War Two give a rare insight into the inner
workings of this top secret organisation.
Ruth Bourne, Gwendoline Page, Jean Valentine
and Charlotte (Betty) Webb will each give a
personal glimpse into their time at Bletchley Park
and WW2, followed by a Q&A Session.
For more information and tickets got to https://www.bletchleypark.org.uk/shop/p.rhtm/130872/777785-BletchleyParkPresents_TheRealWomenofBletchleyPark.html
Picture: ©Mubsta
#BPark, #Bletchleypark, #ww2veteran, #enigma
2 min

About Bletchley Park

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Bletchley Park is the home of British codebreaking and a birthplace of modern information technology. It played a major role in World War Two, producing secret intelligence which had a direct and profound influence on the outcome of the conflict. The site is now a museum and heritage attraction, open daily.