FOR MORE than 50 years, Ann Mitchell kept the secret of the role she played in helping the British beat the Nazi war machine. Did you know with a Digital Subscription to The Scotsman, you can get ...

The rows of silver dials and tangle of scarlet wires look more like a telephone exchange. But this is the inside of the Turing Bombe, the part-electronic, part-mechanical code-breaking machine and ...

WORLD War Two codebreaker Ruth Bourne, who worked with Alan Turing to crack the German Enigma code, has died aged 99. Ms Bourne, grew up in Birmingham but later lived in High Barnet, north London, ...

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A WAR hero who helped crack the Nazi Enigma code has been honoured for his achievements more than 60 years on. Code breaker John Whiteside, 92, worked with Manchester University computer pioneer Alan ...

WWII code-breaker Alan Turing has been given a posthumous royal pardon for a 61-year-old conviction for being gay. Dr Turing, who was pivotal in breaking the Enigma code, was chemically castrated ...

Over the last 100 years, women have had significant, high-level roles in breaking secret codes – from Nazi ciphers to the secret messages of Al Capone’s gang – but their contribution is only just ...

For 250 years it defied all code-breakers. Darwin had a go; Dickens, and Wedgwood too. But the 10-letter inscription - DOUOSVAVVM - carved into a monument on the Shugborough Estate in Staffordshire ...

Being allies in wartime is a difficult business. Just ask Defence Secretary Geoff Hoon who this week told MPs that Britain would have failed in its duty as an ally if it does not send British troops ...