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  1. World War II Code-Breakers. In the summer of 1939, with war looming, British cryptanalysts of the Government Code and Cipher School were evacuated to Bletchley Park, a Victorian mansion located about 50 miles from London in Buckinghamshire. It was headed by a naval officer, Commander Edward Travis.

  2. Feb 23, 2022 · Nearly 10,000 people worked in the wider Bletchley Park organisation. At first GC&CS followed its pre-war recruitment policy and looked for ‘Men and women of a professor type’ through contacts at Oxford and Cambridge universities. Many famous Codebreakers including Alan Turing, Gordon Welchman and Bill Tutte were found this way.

  3. Sep 20, 2018 · By the end of the Second World War in 1945 nearly 10,000 people worked at Bletchley Park, an enormous increase on the 130-strong staff that composed the Government Code and Cypher School in 1939. In many ways it was one of the most remarkable groups ever assembled.

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  4. This assembly looks at a group of people, mostly women, who changed the course of the World War Two through determination and analytical thinking, without ever leaving the UK. People have only recently found out how they worked, the difficult decisions that they faced and what a difference that made

  5. CODEBREAKERS. INTRODUCTION. For centuries, some people, organisations and governments have wanted to send information secretly. Different ways of sending secret messages have been developed over time but the most common practice has been to hide information by using a code or a cipher (see box below).

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  6. Oct 5, 2017 · During the Second World War, Bletchley Park was home to the Government Code and Cypher School and it was the job of mathematicians working there, including Alan Turing, Joan Clarke and Bill Tutte, to decipher intercepted military communications sent by the Axis nations.

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  8. Jul 1, 2019 · The story of how girl power – often school-girl power – turned what began as an eccentric experiment into the world’s most impressive codebreaking factory is less well known, but no less important.

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