I found the source of the article that I mentioned in my previous post about my great Grandfather Sidney Ambury, formerly Solomon Hamburg. I've pasted it below. I would really like to get in touch with the author Lesley Brown, if you are her or kn...
Well, what a day yesterday. Phew! I've never been to an auction before in my life! I was there to see whether Bletchley Park were able to buy the Turing papers, see my previous post if you'd like to know the details. Once I'd got to Christie's, fo...
Google have done a fabulous thing today (massive thanks to @SimonMeacham). They have given Bletchley Park $100 000 towards the purchase of a lot for auction at Christies tomorrow, which includes the codebreaker Max Newman's copies of many of Turin...
I've spent some time recently looking at my family tree. I started doing it about seven years ago when I was pregnant with @thecheekster and had some spare time. I found out lots of information, but got stuck on one Great Grandparent: Sidney Ambur...
I'm currently carrying out research in the area of public engagement and technology. I'm looking to benchmark what currently exists and what opinions are and then carry out some public engagement activities to see if we can improve people's percep...
At the age of seven I felt compelled to spend my pocket money on maths text books. I had very few friends. If only I had known then that one day geeks would be cool...
23 senior members of the Chinese Communist Party have signed an openletter calling on the government to support a free and independentpress. Copies of the letter are being deleted from Chinese websites, andaccess to copies hosted outside China is ...
Yes, I guess that just about sums me up! :)
This morning I finally got to meet the legend that is @Hubmum :)) We discussed world domination for five minutes....and then she was gone.