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E102 - Collegiate Connections
December 2019 During World War Two, 34 alumnae of St Hugh’s College Oxford ended up working at Bletchley Park and its Outstations and In March 2020 …
6 years, 2 months ago
E101 - Battle of the Bulge
December 2019 After nearly 6 months of fighting from the beaches of Normandy, by early December 1944 the Allies’ front line stretched for 600 mile…
6 years, 2 months ago
E100 – Légion d’honneur
December 2019 At the end of each year we like to focus on the important work that our Oral History Officer Jonathan Byrne and his team of staff an…
6 years, 2 months ago
E99 - 100 Years of Codebreaking
November 2019 In this month’s 2nd episode celebrating the anniversary of the creation of GCHQ, where better to learn more about those 100 years th…
6 years, 3 months ago
E98 - GCHQ at 100
November 2019 During WW1 the United Kingdom had two separate cryptographic organisations, the Navy’s Room 40 & the Army’s MI1(b). Both had major cod…
6 years, 3 months ago
E97 - Early Days
October 2019 “Gas masks are to be taken” so ends what seems a rather mundane government memo dated the 2nd of August 1939. It importance becomes a…
6 years, 4 months ago
E96 - Market Garden
September 2019 By early September 1944, with the Normandy Campaign behind them, 6 Allied Armies were racing across Northern France and into the Lo…
6 years, 5 months ago
E95 - Veterans’ Reunion 2019
September 2019 Each year, to mark the arrival of the first Codebreakers at Station X in 1939 we hold our Veterans Reunion. This year it was made m…
6 years, 5 months ago
E94 - 90 Days
August 2019 In earlier episodes this year we have concentrated on the preparations for, and the events of D-Day itself, the 6th of June. However D-D…
6 years, 6 months ago
E93 - The GPO and GC&CS
July 2019 Most people now know of the work carried out by Tommy Flowers and his team that ultimately led to the design and construction of ‘Coloss…
6 years, 7 months ago