Paul Nash’s brand of southern English surrealism has had a resurgence in the last few years. But he was never neglected, and a 1948 Nash exhibition in Manchester was one of the visual highlights of the city, according to one of Turing’s closest friends.
Read moreRed Witch and Pink Scientists: Blackett’s MI5 file
There’s a thrill in first reading Patrick Blackett’s MI5 file, because it has big red ‘SECRET’ stamps on it. But it also tells the story of a colossal misjudgement.
Read moreFog Tricycles
Manchester bus fog tricycle. That’s all.
Read moreLaunch
Alan Turing’s Manchester has been many years in the making. My intention is to use this blog as a way of sharing some of the material that didn’t make it into the book. So it’s appropriate to start with an image I first saw 30 years ago, in King’s College Cambridge, and didn’t understand. I still don’t quite understand it…
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