Bletchley Park's documents are to be digitised and put online. The site where WWII's code and cipher school were based has a long-term project to make the documents available to the public. See the story on the BBC and the Times.
A group of Year 8 Maths and History pupils visited the site yesterday and had a fantastic time touring the Park where about 10,000 people were eventually based but that remained top secret both during the war and for three decades afterwards. We were able to use the German Enigma machine that encrypted and decrypted German messages and saw the first digitised computer called Colossus which took up a large room!
Another cross-curricular link with the History Department was made by Year 9 who visited Jersey over half-term to go to Gerald Durrell's Wildlife Conservation Trust. While on the island, they visited the Jersey War Tunnels Museum which also displays an Enigma machine. Jersey, and the other Channel Islands, had a very different experience of the War to the rest of the UK as they were invaded and occupied by the Germans. See the War Tunnels site here for more information.
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