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Photos: Codebreaking Bletchley Park gets £4.6m lottery grant

...Seventy years ago inside drab huts in the heart of Buckinghamshire, British codebreakers unpicked the secret communications of the Nazi war machine. The work of... Read more

5 October, 2011 by Nick Heath

Google Street View trike hits historic Bletchley Park

Home of World War II codebreakers to be featured in Google's Special Collect gallery... Bletchley Park has... Read more

5 August, 2011 by Tim Ferguson
<endeca_term>CodeBreakers</endeca_term> 1.0

CodeBreakers 1.0

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24 September, 2010

Google donates £550,000 to Bletchley Park restoration fund

Home of World War II codebreakers close to hitting funding target... Google has donated £550,000 towards restoring... Read more

15 December, 2011 by Nick Heath
Google donates £550,000 to Bletchley Park

Google donates £550,000 to Bletchley Park

...Trust has been doing great work to honour Alan Turing and the codebreakers who helped shorten the Second World War and to educate the next... Read more

15 December, 2011 by Tom Espiner

Queen unveils Bletchley memorial

...the Queen visited with Prince Philip, and that some of the surviving codebreakers will be there at the ceremony. "There is no doubt that [Bletchley... Read more

15 July, 2011

Photos: WWII machine that cracked Nazi codes is reborn

...by the German high command to encipher their messages. A team of codebreakers at Bletchley Park worked out the 12-rotor structure of the Lorenz... Read more

3 June, 2011 by Nick Heath
Code-Breakers 1.2.0

Code-Breakers 1.2.0

CodeBreakers are extremely addictive word puzzles that have been baffling puzzlers around the... Read more

20 March, 2011
Understand Medicine Nobel's Greatest Hits Explained 2

Understand Medicine Nobel's Greatest Hits Explained 2

...promises.Includes:Battling the Bugs penicillin, immunology winning the battle against diseaseThe Codebreakers Crick and Watson, the double helix, DNA, generic engineering, cloning and the... Read more

4 March, 2011

Photos: Apple I, Enigma machine and Turing papers to be auctioned at Christie's

...used by the Germans to encrypt messages that kept the team of codebreakers at Bletchley Park busy during WWII. Christie's has estimated that the... Read more

11 November, 2010 by Tim Ferguson

Bletchley Park wins £460k in lottery funding

...it become a heritage and educational centre. The base for Britain's codebreakers during the Second World War, Bletchley Park was recently turned down for... Read more

29 September, 2009 by David Meyer

Government to honour Bletchley veterans

The government is to give Bletchley Park WWII codebreakers a badge to commemorate their efforts during the war. The commemorative scheme... Read more

13 July, 2009 by Tom Espiner

FBI intensifies Melissa manhunt

Two Web sites with connections to Melissa -- SourceOfKaos.com and Codebreakers.org -- have been shut down, allegedly at the behest of the FBI... Read more

1 April, 1999 by ZDNet

Bletchley Park WWII codebreakers honoured

...has paid tribute to the work done by the World War II codebreakers at Bletchley Park who cracked the Enigma code used by Nazi Germany... Read more

13 October, 2009 by Nick Heath

Photos: WWII codebreakers return to Bletchley Park

...protect communications. On Sunday these women and more than 100 other veteran codebreakers returned to Bletchley Park, where in 1939 the British began to decipher... Read more

7 September, 2009 by Nick Heath

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