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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]
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 Bletchley... [31 Jul 2008]
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 a chain of Wrens,... [05 Nov 2009]
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 Secretary was speaking at... [13 Oct 2009]
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, which houses the... [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. Bletchley Park... [26 Aug 2009]
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]
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 is home to a rebuilt version of the legendary Colossus codebreaking machine... [30 May 2008]
Photos: Bletchley needs £2m to save codebreakers' huts
Photo But today hut six, seen here, and hut three at Bletchley Park are rotting and boarded up after decades of neglect. Margaret Sale, one of the founder members of the Bletchley Trust, said that the trust... [11 May 2009]
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 provide vital... [24 Jul 2008]
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 executive officer of... [09 Sep 2008]
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 Gordon Brown last... [14 Sep 2009]
Photos: Secret-code machines come to Bletchley
Photo One of the world's largest collections of Enigma cipher machines - famous for being used by the Nazis to protect communications during the Second World War - is to go on display at Bletchley Park. Enigma and other... [17 Aug 2009]
Badge of honour for WWII Bletchley codebreakers
News The government is to give Bletchley Park WWII codebreakers a badge to commemorate their efforts during the war. The commemorative scheme, which will be open to all military and civilian personnel who served at... [14 Jul 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 Park is famous for the role it played in... [06 Nov 2008]
