A mini-meditation on the attraction — and grotesquery — of Turing artefacts.
Read moreWomen at the console
Bertha Swirles, Phyllis Lockett, Cicely Popplewell, Audrey Bates, and Mary Lee Woods. Did Manchester University computing did first create and then lose female expertise?
Read moreNorthern Adventure
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.
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