Queen of Codes – The Secret Life of Emily Anderson
Join Dr Jackie Uí Chionna to discover how she unravelled the forgotten story of Britain’s highest-ranking female Codebreaker.
Bletchley Park
Speaker meetings
Virginia Bradford
Andy Tennet will speak on Virginia Bradford, a silent movie actress who led a colourful life. Once her film career ended she moved to England.
Yardley Gobion History Group
Outside the Camp? The leper hospitals of Medieval England
Speaker: Professor Carol Rawcliffe of the University of East Anglia. Remote lecturer.
Olney Archaeological Society
Windmill Street (the street that never was)
A talk by Dianne Sutton. AGM.
Newport Pagnell Historical Society
Using Colossus with Russian teleprinter traffic
There is a story that two Colossi were sent to GCHQ to help with breaking Russian teleprinter traffic encrypted with captured SZ4n machines.
National Museum of Computing
A concise history of our Great British parks
What do we really know about them? their origins? did they really start in the Victorian period or do they go even further back?
Buckinghamshire Gardens Trust
Y Stations – What, Where, When, Y
Uncover the story of the Y Stations, a clandestine network of wireless listening outposts across the UK and around the world.
Bletchley Park
Mind Mapping in relation to genealogical research
Mind Maps can be as simple or complex as you want. However, they help organise planning and thought processes by visually mapping the information.
Buckinghamshire Family History Society
RAF to Formula 1 – Silverstone
The story of a village dominated over the centuries by the wood trade and post-war becoming “The Birthplace of Formula 1”.
Roade Local History Society
The Return to the Roman World of Priors Hall
What had happened on the northern and eastern sides of the villa, and how did these people connect with their neighbours?
Olney Archaeological Society