7:15 pm, Tuesday, 25 November 2008
Location: Victoria Hall
The Codebreakers by: Mark Baldwin
One of the Second World War's most fascinating stories is that of the Enigma machine, a portable encryption device widely used by the Germans, which they believed to be totally secure. Nevertheless the Allies devised techniques for 'breaking' Enigma codes and much of this work was carried out at Bletchley Park. The intelligence gained was of immense value to the Allies in virtually every theatre of war, but nowhere more so than in the Battle of the Atlantic.
After the lecture, the audience are invited to take part in a hands-on demonstration of one of the few surviving Enigma machines
Cost: £4.00 per lecture or £17.50 for the season of 10 lectures