The Ultra Secret: How Frederick Winterbotham Spilt the Beans
Dr Mark Baldwin sets Frederick Winterbotham’s book The Ultra Secret in its proper context, and examines some of the effects it produced.
The National Museum of Computing
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NPL Scrapbook – Not Scrap Anymore!
Scrapbook pioneered the concept of Hyperlinks. A team has been restoring a DEC PDP 11/70 with a view to mounting the original scrapbook disks.
The National Museum of Computing
Great Linford Manor Park Guided Walk
You will be shown around the main historic landscape features of the park and the restoration funded by the National Lottery Heritage Fund.
Buckinghamshire Gardens Trust
Tunny and Colossus
Without ever seeing the German High Command cipher machine, the Bletchley Park cryptanalysts developed a way of deciphering intercepted messages.
The National Museum of Computing
John Ferris – Behind the Enigma
John Ferris will assess the evolution of British codebreaking in the twentieth century, with a particular focus on Bletchley Park, and World War Two.
Bletchley Park
Stoke Goldington Walk
Meet at the Village Hall, and please bring precisely £2.00. The walk will be mostly on paths. Please book. There is a maximum of 25 attendees for this event
Newport Pagnell Historical Society
Visit to the gardens of The Manor House, Bledlow
There are a walled kitchen garden, sunken water garden, parterres and a sculpture garden. The private gardens of the Lord and Lady Carrington.
Buckinghamshire Gardens Trust
Day School
Prof. Stephen Upex presents “Doom, more doom and even greater doom: Human survival against the natural odds” at Knuston Hall.
Olney Archaeological Society
Origins of Place Names
Speaker: Anthony Poulton-Smith. His most recent book is ‘Paranormal Northamptonshire’. This free talk is for BFHS members only.
Buckinghamshire Family History Society
Northampton Conscientious Objectors
John Buckell’s talk reveals the struggle between the tribunals and those Northampton citizens who refused to fight, and what happened to them as a result.
Western Front Association Milton Keynes