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Enigma code machine swiped from Bletchley Park museum
News One of only three existing Enigma machines -- used by the Nazis to encrypt messages during the second world war -- has been stolen from the code-breaking museum at Bletchley Park in Buckinghamshire. The stolen machine was brought to the Bletchley...
[April 3, 2000, 12:07]
Bletchley Park
Talkback Alongside but unconnected is the Computer Museum which has the Colossus. Typically the fighting between the two organisations will destroy both. Surely the people who have made and continue to make fortunes in the .com world can stump up funds to...
[May 17, 2008, 9:28]
Bletchley Park hosts chip concert
News Musician Matthew Applegate, known as Pixelh8, explains to ZDNet UK how he programmed and sampled historic computers at the National Museum of Computing, including the rebuilt Colossus WWII code-breaker, to create music for a concert at Bletchley...
[March 24, 2009, 12:32]
Bletchley Park calls for aid
News Bletchley Park directors and security experts discuss the history of the UK WWII code-breaking centre, which needs funds to stop the buildings falling apart, and to preserve the National Museum of Computing.
[September 12, 2008, 16:48]
Saving Bletchley Park is crucial
Talkback The achievements of all at Bletchley Park were kept a secret all through the cold war. Maybe Bill Gates doesn't want to support this museum because it underlines where electronic computing started i.e.here, not the U.S.
[May 18, 2008, 18:11]
A Sign of our Gratitude to Bletchley Park
Talkback If every person in Britain alive today who was alive during the Bletchley Park Golden Years sent £1 to the museum it might survive - as we did because of them. My £1 is on its way. Michael
[May 16, 2008, 21:56]
Bletchley Park
Talkback The leases for the Museum and "Bletchley Park" are different . I recently called to deposit some computers in the museum. It seems the Science Museum dont want to know. There is a vast amount of equipment awaiting examination.
[May 20, 2008, 9:43]
Recognising Bletchley Park's unsung heroines
News A visit to Bletchley Park's museum four years ago triggered the idea. During World War II, around 6,000 women worked at the highly secretive Bletchley Park and its outposts. Bletchley Park, or Station X as it was mysteriously known at the time, was...
[March 12, 2008, 11:08]
Bletchley Park: The preservation challenge
News While Bletchley Park houses the National Museum of Computing, which on Tuesday launched its own fundraising campaign, Bletchley Park is a separate entity and needs to raise its own funds. One of the challenges now facing the Bletchley Park Trust is...
[September 11, 2008, 13:19]
Bletchley Park wins £460k in lottery funding
News Bletchley Park has been open to the public as a museum since 1994. Bletchley Park has won £460,500 in lottery funding for its restoration, and is in line to receive a further £4.1m to help it become a heritage and educational centre.
[September 29, 2009, 12:48]
Bletchley Park secures £600k funding
News The two bodies announced on Thursday that Bletchley Park, famous for its role in Allied codebreaking during WWII, would receive the funds over the next three years. Speaking to ZDNet UK on Wednesday, Bletchley Park Trust director Simon Greenish...
[March 12, 2009, 11:24]
Gov't rejects call for Bletchley Park funding
News The government has refused to stump up more cash to help Bletchley Park stay afloat until the museum can support itself. Lord Davies also rejected the suggestion that Bletchley should be associated with the Imperial War Museum to recognise the...
[May 20, 2009, 9:10]
MP calls on government for Bletchley funding
News A Liberal Democrat MP has asked the government for funding for Bletchley Park, the home of UK code-breaking during World War II. Simon Greenish, director of the Bletchley Park Trust, said the push for operational support was "very positive".
[July 24, 2009, 13:15]
Bletchley Park disappointed by funding rebuff
News More than 20,000 people signed a public petition to the prime minister asking for £250,000 per year, for five years, to cover operational expenditure for the museum at Bletchley Park. Simon Greenish, director of Bletchley Park Trust, said on Friday...
[August 28, 2009, 16:58]
Scientists' plea for Bletchley Park
News On Thursday a group of 97 senior scientists wrote to The Times pointing out that although Milton Keynes Borough Council and the Bletchley Park Trust have saved the buildings from redevelopment, and they now serve as the National Museum of...
[July 24, 2008, 15:04]
Man charged with Enigma machine theft
News Dennis Yates, who has been charged with stealing the Enigma G312 device from Bletchley Park museum in April, was snared by investigators who hid messages in newspapers and Web pages and arranged midnight graveyard rendezvous, according to reports.
[November 20, 2000, 12:09]
Bletchley Park campaign makes appeal to US
News Phil Dunkelberger, chief executive officer of PGP, told ZDNet.co.uk in a video interview that the group of companies would be making donations to repair the buildings at Bletchley Park, including the National Museum of Computing, and would be...
[September 8, 2008, 1:00]
Bringing Colossus back to life
News It is kept in its original location at Bletchley Park, where it cracked Nazi codes during World War II and played a key role in the Allied victory. Credit: Bletchley Park Trust Credit: Bletchley Park Trust
[November 19, 2007, 14:10]
Police call code-breakers to crack Enigma riddle
News The machine was taken from the Second World War museum Bletchley Park in Buckinghamshire. Museum curators at Bletchley are desperate to see the machine returned. Its theft sparked an extensive police investigation and caused the Bletchley museum to...
[September 13, 2000, 14:04]
A musical trip to Bletchley Park - 1
Blog After the recording, I and producer Monise Durrani (who's fresh from producing a series on Islam and Science, involving a trip to Pakistan which probably generated enough risk assessment forms to rebuild the Library of Alexandria) took the train...
[March 8, 2009, 18:20]
