Fabulous blogpost interview with Kerry Howard @captainridley on Twitter about the female codebreakers at Bletchley Park: Mavis Batey, Joan Clarke and Margaret Rock 😃
An Interview with Researcher and Author, Kerry Howard
By J. Lynn Stapleton
The Mansion, Bletchley Park Museum, Milton-Keynes, UK. © J. Lynn Stapleton, 6th August 2013
In August of 2013, I had the opportunity to visit Bletchley Park. There was so much to see and take in, and yet there was still much to uncover as the park’s restoration continues. Many of the huts which held the Bombe machines were still in poor condition. The Park in itself had been under threat of demolishment more than once, which would have been a great tragedy as it is one of the most historic points in British history, and indeed world history, as the site where the German Enigma code was broken thus ending the War as much as two years earlier and saving millions of lives.
Bletchley Park, also referred to as Station X, was home to the Government Code and…
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