Newspaper cuttings relating to Turing, Bletchley Park and Hanslope Park , 1994 - 2013
Scope and Contents
The cuttings are about people related to Turing, Bayley and/or the work done at Hanslope Park. Many are annotated [by Bayley] with their relevance. Comprising:
• Undated article about rebuilding the Colossus, [1994]
• Background and review of the book ‘Enigma’, 31 August and 4 September 1995
• Article about ‘Operation Ruthless’ devised by Ian Fleming in 1940 to acquire an Enigma machine, 19 August 1996
• Article about Bletchley Park as a cultural visiting site and the work done there, 14 December 1996
• Obituary for Professor Sir Harry Hinsley, 18 February 1998
• Notice of blue plaque being put up in Maida Vale, 23 June 1998
• Obituary for Tommy Flowers, 10 November 1998
• Difficulties of erecting a Turing statue in Manchester, 10 March 1999
• Obituary for David Champernowne, 4 September 2000
• Obituary for William Hewlett, 15 January 2001
• Obituaries for Tom Kilburn, 28 January, and March 2001
• Obituary for Joseph Eachus, 19 December 2003
• Obituary for Peter Twinn, 17 November 2004
• Review of two books about Colossus, 4 March 2006
• Review of ‘The Man who Knew Too Much’, undated [2006]
• Obituary for Donald Michie, 9 July 2007
• Apology to Turing by Gordon Brown, and Simon Heffer’s response, 11 and 12 September 2009
• ‘Code breaker’s war papers saved’, undated notice [2010-11]
• Three pages about Britain in Kenya during Mau Mau, with articles that mention or show photographs of Hanslope Park, 8 April 2011
• Review of ‘Seizing the Enigma’, undated [2012]
• Notice of pardon for Turing, 20 July 2013
Together with an envelope marked ‘KEEP THESE’ and a scrap of paper annotated ‘Delilah’.
Dates
- Creation: 1994 - 2013
Creator
- From the Fonds: Turing, Alan Mathison, 1912 - 1954 (computer scientist) (Person)
Extent
25 sheet(s) : newspaper and paper
1 envelope(s)
Repository Details
Part of the Archive Centre, King's College, Cambridge Repository
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