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Bletchley Park restoration short on funds

News Historic Bletchley Park needs a financial helping hand to save several buildings used by World War II codebreakers. Bletchley Park turns back time The... [30 May 2008]

Photos: WWII codebreakers return to Bletchley Park

Photo On Sunday these women and more than 100 other veteran codebreakers returned to Bletchley Park, where in 1939 the British began to decipher German military code which was created using the Enigma coder. [07 Sep 2009]

Inbox: Vista, Bletchley Park and Cuil

Comment Also this week - a blast from the past - the birthplace of the UK's computing efforts Bletchley Park needs help - but not all readers agree on what is the best way forward. The survival of... [31 Jul 2008]

Bletchley Park lands £460,000 funding boost from lottery

News After prolonged debate over its future, Bletchley Park - home of the World War II codebreakers who cracked the Enigma code used by the Nazis - is to receive lottery funding. Bletchley... [29 Sep 2009]

Bletchley Park funding call rejected: No new cash for codebreakers' home

News Bletchley Park, the home of UK codebreakers during World War II, will get no financial support from the government after a petition calling for funding from Whitehall was rejected today.... [26 Aug 2009]

Bletchley Park's World War Two codebreakers in their own words

News The work of the Bletchley Park codebreakers is credited with shortening the Second World War by two years. Most staff only knew as much as their role demanded - with intercepted messages passing through... [05 Nov 2009]

Bletchley Park appeals to US for funds

News A campaign will be launched today to ask US tech companies to help save Bletchley Park, whose wartime work helped lay the foundations of modern computing and cryptography. Phil Dunkelberger, chief... [09 Sep 2008]

Bletchley Park future under colossal threat

News The survival of Bletchley Park, the secret home to Britain's codebreakers during World War II, is under serious threat from the "ravages of age and a lack of investment" unless the government steps in to... [24 Jul 2008]

Bletchley Park WWII codebreakers honoured

News The Foreign Secretary David Miliband 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's military. The Foreign... [13 Oct 2009]

Bletchley Park's Alan Turing gets official apology

News Alan Turing, the mathematician and cryptographer whose work played an essential role in the efforts of codebreaking-centre Bletchley Park during WWII, received a posthumous apology from Prime Minister... [14 Sep 2009]

Funding snub for historic Bletchley Park

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... [19 May 2009]

Photos: Colossus gets cracking after 60 years

Photo 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. Photo credit: Bletchley... [16 Nov 2007]

Britain's classic computers: A silicon.com special

News While Bletchley Park may be best known for housing the Enigma code-breaking machine during World War II, the former intelligence facility is still home to numerous tech treasures in the National Museum... [02 Oct 2008]

Photos: Restoring one of the world's oldest computers

Photo Volunteers at The National Museum of Computing (TNMOC) at Bletchley Park will rebuild the Witch machine (shown here) - a computer that was first used in 1951 for atomic research. See more photos from... [04 Sep 2009]

Codebreaking Bletchley given help to fill in the cracks

News World War II codebreaking centre Bletchley Park is to receive a £330,000 grant from English Heritage. Bletchley Park turns back time Bletchley... [06 Nov 2008]

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