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Recognising Bletchley Park's unsung heroines
News 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 the intelligence centre behind the country's efforts to decode...
[March 12, 2008, 11:08]
Bletchley Park hosts chip concert
Video 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, 12:27]
Sign the Bletchley Park e-petition
Blog As you know, Bletchley Park is under threat. Well, here's your chance to show your support for Bletchley's survival. The iconic site is crumbling and desperately needs the external funding that befits its place in British computing history.
[July 30, 2008, 12:40]
Bletchley Park: The preservation challenge
News One of the challenges now facing the Bletchley Park Trust is renovating the site's decrepit buildings, at an estimated cost of £5m. Hut 6 (pictured) at Bletchley Park was built in 1940 to house the codebreakers working on deciphering the Enigma...
[September 11, 2008, 13:19]
Scientists' plea for Bletchley Park
News Scientists and researchers are pleading for the future of Bletchley Park, the home of the codebreakers who famously broke German codes in World War II as well as creating the first programmable electronic computer, Colossus.
[July 24, 2008, 15:04]
Bletchley Park disappointed by funding rebuff
News Bletchley Park, the home of British code-breaking during World War II, has called Number 10's refusal to provide it with additional funding "disappointing". More than 20,000 people signed a public petition to the prime minister asking for £250,000...
[August 28, 2009, 16:58]
Bletchley Park wins £460k in lottery funding
News 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. The base for Britain's codebreakers during the Second World War, Bletchley Park...
[September 29, 2009, 12:48]
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. Bletchley Park was the location of Station X, the...
[April 3, 2000, 12:07]
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]
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]
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. Other Lords echoed Baroness McIntosh's calls for more government cash for Bletchley, which was credited with planting the seeds...
[May 20, 2009, 9:10]
Bletchley Park campaign makes appeal to US
News A campaign will be launched on Tuesday to ask US tech companies to help save Bletchley Park, whose wartime work helped lay the foundations of modern computing and crytography. Phil Dunkelberger, chief executive officer of PGP, told ZDNet.co.uk in a...
[September 8, 2008, 1:00]
Bletchley Park
Talkback The leases for the Museum and "Bletchley Park" are different . I recently called to deposit some computers in the museum. There is a vast amount of equipment awaiting examination. But it is all being done by volunteers.
[May 20, 2008, 9:43]
Bletchley Park gets grant for urgent repairs
News WWII codebreaking centre Bletchley Park is to receive a £330,000 grant from English Heritage. Bletchley Park is famous for the role it played in decrypting messages enciphered by the Nazi Enigma machine, and also for housing the world's first...
[November 7, 2008, 7:57]
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]
PGP boss sets out to save Bletchley Park
News Phil Dunkelberger, chief executive of PGP, tells ZDNet.co.uk why he's signing the cheques to help save Bletchley Park — and who he's doing it with.
[September 9, 2008, 0:01]
Saving Bletchley Park is crucial
Talkback The achievements of all at Bletchley Park were kept a secret all through the cold war. What was achieved there is recognised to be of fundamental importance to both winning the war (Churchill visited to say 'thank you' to them) and the development...
[May 18, 2008, 18:11]
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 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]
Sign the Bletchley Park e-petition
Blog Comment If any site has a story to tell, it's Bletchley. Mind you, having driven through Bletchley I can testify that it's not exactly a pretty place. I find this sad, and strangely unbelievable. I mean to say, it's already been the subject of at least one...
[July 30, 2008, 16:09]
