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    About 7,500 women worked in Bletchley Park, the central site for British cryptanalysts during World War II. Women constituted roughly 75% of the workforce...
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    Bletchley Park is an English country house and estate in Bletchley, Milton Keynes (Buckinghamshire), that became the principal centre of Allied code-breaking...
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  • The Bletchley Circle is a television mystery drama series, set in 1952–53, about four women who worked as codebreakers at Bletchley Park. Dissatisfied...
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  • Women made up the majority of the 10,000 people who worked at Bletchley Park. The following is a list of women who worked at Bletchley Park. Helene Aldwinckle...
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  • Betty Webb (code breaker) (category Bletchley Park women)
    1923) was an English codebreaker who worked at Bletchley Park during World War II at the age of 18. Starting in 1941 she joined the British Auxiliary Territorial...
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  • Joan Clarke (category Bletchley Park women)
    as a code-breaker at Bletchley Park during the Second World War. Although she did not personally seek the spotlight, her role in the Enigma project that...
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  • This is a list of people associated with Bletchley Park, the principal centre of Allied code-breaking during the Second World War, notable either for their...
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  • Osla Benning (category Bletchley Park women)
    August 1921 – 29 October 1974) was a Canadian debutante, who worked at Bletchley Park, was Prince Philip's first girlfriend, and later married Sir John Henniker-Major...
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  • Ruth Bourne (category Bletchley Park women)
    of the Women of Bletchley Park who was recruited to help win World War II against the Axis Powers from 1939–1945. The Women of Bletchley Park were a secret...
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  • Jean Briggs Watters (category Bletchley Park women)
    cryptanalyst and Women's Royal Naval Service personnel who was one of around 10,000 women enlisted to decrypt the Enigma machine code at Bletchley Park and never...
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  • Joan McLean (category Bletchley Park women)
    provided morse code from German submarines to Bletchley Park, Buckinghamshire. Joan Louisa McLean was born 1919, in Dublin, Ireland, one of four children, the...
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    Rosemary Brown Stanton (category Bletchley Park women)
    2017) worked in the decoding room at Bletchley Park in World War II, and led an "extraordinary life". Stanton was born on 3 February 1924, in Radlett, a...
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  • Sarah Baring (category Bletchley Park women)
    socialite and memoirist, who worked for three years as a linguist at Bletchley Park, the principal centre of Allied code-breaking during the Second World...
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  • Patricia Davies (codebreaker) (category Bletchley Park women)
    on to Bletchley Park. After the war, Davies was a television producer, journalist, and author. She was also an organiser of the Chiswick Women’s Institute...
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    Jean Valentine (bombe operator) (category Bletchley Park women)
    device in Hut 11 at Bletchley Park in England, designed by Alan Turing and others during World War II. She was a member of the "Wrens" (Women's Royal Naval...
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  • Jane Fawcett (category Bletchley Park women)
    codebreaking project at Bletchley Park. She joined a group of women known as the "Debs of Bletchley Park", so called because they were women recruited from upper...
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  • Ann Katharine Mitchell (category Bletchley Park women)
    psychologist who worked on decrypting messages encoded in the German Enigma cypher at Bletchley Park during the Second World War. After the war she became...
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  • Kathleen Godfrey (category Bletchley Park women)
    World War; the first as a radio operator for radar and then at Hut 3 of Bletchley Park working to extract intelligence from cracked Enigma ciphers. Her father...
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  • Margaret Rock (category Bletchley Park women)
    (7 July 1903 – 26 August 1983) was one of the 8000 women mathematicians who worked in Bletchley Park during World War II. With her maths skills and education...
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    Sue Black (computer scientist) (category Bletchley Park people)
    entrepreneur. She is known for saving Bletchley Park, (World War II codebreaking) with her Saving Bletchley Park campaign. Since 2018, she has been Professor...
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  • Tessa Dunlop (category 21st-century British women writers)
    ISBN 978-1471161322. Tessa Dunlop (2015). The Bletchley Girls: War, secrecy, love and loss: the women of Bletchley Park tell their story. London: Hodder & Stoughton...
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  • Pamela Rose (category Bletchley Park women)
    actress (as Pamela Gibson) who later worked at Bletchley Park running Naval Hut 4’s indexing section. In later life she was a trustee and chair of charities...
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    Colossus computer (category Bletchley Park)
    prototype, Colossus Mark 1, was shown to be working in December 1943 and was in use at Bletchley Park by early 1944. An improved Colossus Mark 2 that used...
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  • Audrey Ruth Briggs (category Bletchley Park women)
    during the war. About 75% of the Bletchley Park staff were women but few female codebreakers were recognised for their work. In 1946 she married former SOE...
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  • Irene Dixon (category Bletchley Park women)
    June 1924 – 1 January 2021), Bletchley Park codebreaker was born in East London and in 1943 was one of the first women sent to the top secret unit decoding...
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  • Mair Russell-Jones (category Bletchley Park women)
    for the Government Code and Cypher School at Bletchley Park. She worked in Hut 6, decrypting messages in Enigma machine cipher. Having signed the Official...
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  • Irene Brown (category Bletchley Park women)
    Published in 1990, it was one of the first books to describe what life was like at Bletchley. Women formed roughly 75% of the workforce at Bletchley Park. The...
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    Ultra (cryptography) (category Bletchley Park)
    communications at the Government Code and Cypher School (GC&CS) at Bletchley Park. Ultra eventually became the standard designation among the western...
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  • Eleanor Ireland (category Bletchley Park women)
    Britain Discarded Women Technologists and Lost Its Edge in Computing. MIT Press. p. 33. ISBN 9780262342940. "First-Hand:Bletchley Park, Station X - Memories...
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  • Sigrid Augusta Green (category Bletchley Park women)
    Resistance and then as a code breaker at Bletchley Park. Sigrid Augusta Green, known as Gusta, was born in Darwen, Lancashire, to a Norwegian mother...
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