Today, the Queen will pay tribute to the codebreakers who worked at Bletchley Park, the secret cypher base, which broke the German Enigma codes during the Second World War. We’ve put together a selection of features, archive footage and audio material demonstrating the valuable work performed by the men and women at Bletchley Park
In a new BBC History Magazine book 100 Places that Made Britain, David Musgrove asked historians to nominate key sites in Britain’s story. In this piece, Patricia Fara, senior tutor, Clare College, University of Cambridge, nominates Bletchley Park
Though most readers will be familiar with the work of the British decoding centre at Bletchley Park in cracking the German ‘Enigma’ military codes during the Second World War, it is less widely…