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4 min read 2022-03-08 23:15:00

The Rose Code: A Novel by Kate Quinn

The Rose Code is one of those books I've been wanting to read ever since I first heard about it, but it just seemed like I could never find the time.

1 min read 2021-08-11 13:41:30

Reviewed by Anton K. Smith Too little is written about the roles and sacrifices of professional women contributing to the war effort in World War

3 min read 2021-03-25 22:59:53

We’ve talked quite a bit about the importance of Enigma machines in the past. The quest to crack the unbreakable Nazi code machine spanned the

4 min read 2020-10-20 16:57:48

Q: What role did Bletchley Park play during the Second World War? A: Bletchley Park was the Buckinghamshire house and estate that played host to

4 min read 2020-09-17 23:04:48

[Palindrome, written as an ambigram.] Palindromes are a classic — and challenging — form of wordplay. Essentially, you’re trying to come up

4 min read 2020-09-07 12:07:50

The National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) has seen a 60% rise in girls applying for CyberFirst summer schools. The rise in applications comes after

2 min read 2020-08-05 19:15:01

Today, I’m delighted to share the cover for The Rose Code, Kate Quinn’s newest novel – release date March 9, 2021. It has a wonderful colour

9 min read 2020-05-25 15:31:50

Part 1 of this blog introduced Alan Turing’s paper on ‘The Applications of Probability to Cryptography’, explained the Vigenère cipher, and

5 min read 2020-05-20 20:54:24

The Archivists’ Guide to Film is a blog series in which staff at The National Archives write about favourite films that have a connection to

2 min read 2020-04-04 19:47:00

Silent film reel shows staff connected to Bletchley Park for first timeAs the period of the Second World War slips further back into the mists of

3 min read 2020-03-03 23:51:35

During World War II, the Enigma code was one of the most daunting weapons in the German arsenal. Cracking the code would be the key to intercepting

4 min read 2020-02-19 16:15:39

This exceptionally complete example of the Enigma M1070 machine was used to secure German naval communications in the Second World War. It was

2 min read 2019-08-06 22:57:53

When it comes to influential puzzlers, it’s hard to top the impact mathematician and codebreaker Alan Turing had on the world. Admittedly, there

4 min read 2019-05-30 18:20:45

Since the secret of Bletchley Park was revealed in the 1970s, the work of its codebreakers has become one of the most famous stories of the Second

3 min read 2019-04-27 00:52:31

Today’s read is a WW2 mystery set at Bletchley park and focuses on a typist named Honey Deschamps. She begins receiving packages. Some sent by