http://leicesterexchanges.com/2012/10/31/bletchley-park/ From one of the UK’s leading universities comes a new way to make real progress on some key issues that shape our society. Join some of Britain’s leading academics and highest-profile opinion formers as we seek answers that could change the way we live for the better. So, the floor is yours; will you make the most of it? Mon, 13 May 2013 09:19:30 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.2 http://leicesterexchanges.com/2012/10/31/bletchley-park/#comment-18676 Victoria Stewart Thu, 01 Nov 2012 12:19:43 +0000 http://leicesterexchanges.com/?p=2725#comment-18676 Thanks for your comment. Stephenson's novel is a fascinating exploration not just of code-breaking at Bletchley but of American work to crack Japanese codes. Shawn Rosenheim's The Cryptographic Imagination (1996) is also well worth reading if you're interested in this. Thanks for your comment. Stephenson’s novel is a fascinating exploration not just of code-breaking at Bletchley but of American work to crack Japanese codes. Shawn Rosenheim’s The Cryptographic Imagination (1996) is also well worth reading if you’re interested in this.

]]> http://leicesterexchanges.com/2012/10/31/bletchley-park/#comment-18673 Code-Breaking at Bletchley Park: A Belated Addition to Cultural Memory of the Second World War | Leicester Blogs | Scoop.it Wed, 31 Oct 2012 17:19:45 +0000 http://leicesterexchanges.com/?p=2725#comment-18673 [...] By Dr Victoria Stewart, Reader in Modern and Contemporary Literature in the School of English.  [...] [...] By Dr Victoria Stewart, Reader in Modern and Contemporary Literature in the School of English.  [...]

]]> http://leicesterexchanges.com/2012/10/31/bletchley-park/#comment-18672 MIke Wed, 31 Oct 2012 14:05:15 +0000 http://leicesterexchanges.com/?p=2725#comment-18672 Although Robert Harris' mainstream novel is well-known, especially since the film, the best novel about the Enigma machine and Bletchley Park is surely Neil Stephenson's epic, award-winning tome Cryptonomicon, published in 1999. Although Robert Harris’ mainstream novel is well-known, especially since the film, the best novel about the Enigma machine and Bletchley Park is surely Neil Stephenson’s epic, award-winning tome Cryptonomicon, published in 1999.

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