Information heroes WONDER WOMEN
How codebreakers helped win the Second World War.
Anew exhibition is telling the stories of intelligence operations in the Second World War. The Intelligence Factory is at Bletchley Park in the English town of Milton Keynes, and will explore Bletchely’s famous codebreakers. These were people who helped read messages the Nazis sent to each other during the Second World War, which were “coded” (written with a secret meaning). Their work was very important as it helped save many soldiers from Nazi attacks, which the codebreakers found out about before they happened. The exhibition is in Block A, an area of Bletchley Park that has never before been opened to the public. Block A was built in 1942 as part of the expansion of Bletchley Park, when it was made bigger to give more room for codebreakers.
The Intelligence Factory is Bletchley Park’s largest exhibition to date. It will feature exhibits such as close-ups of key war machinery used in the Second World War, interactive displays exploring the ways that the codebreakers gathered intelligence, and their personal stories. of quarters Three Park’s staff Bletchley female. were
There will also be an exhibit comparing the historic work of Bletchley Park with the digital world of today.
Another part of Block A will be dedicated to a different exhibition, The Art of Data: Making Sense of the World. The exhibition will explore how images are used to present data, and will show data relating to everything from football players to air pollution. While this exhibition does not directly link to
The Intelligence Factory, it shows how information gathering has changed and progressed since the Second World War.
Find out more about The Intelligence Factory at tinyurl.com/TWJ-intelligence and The Art of Data at tinyurl.com/TWJ-artofdata