Alan Turing, the Second World War codebreaker widely regarded as the father of modern computing, may not have committed suicide but died as a result of an accident, an academic has claimed. Evidence ...

ETHEL Houston, who has died aged 93, was the first woman to be appointed as a senior partner in a Scottish law firm when she was named to the post by Balfour + Manson in Edinburgh in 1949 and remained ...

Code- and cipher-breaking have been in operation for centuries. However, cryptanalysis – the art of deciphering encoded messages – took on a new importance during WW2 as British boffins strived to ...

Antony Gormley's proposal for a 12ft steel sculpture commemorating the Second World War code-breaker Alan Turing has been approved by Cambridge City council following earlier objections from the ...

ITV Channel's Kate Prout speaks to the family of a Bletchley Park codebreaker about her remarkable life - and secret... A Guernsey woman who helped to crack German enemy codes during the Second World ...

Second World War code-breaker Alan Turing has been given a posthumous royal pardon for a 61-year-old conviction for homosexual activity. Dr Turing, who was pivotal in breaking the Enigma code, ...

BLETCHLEY Park code breaker Betty Webb left £300,000 in her will, probate documents reveal. She helped Alan Turing decipher ...

YOUNG mathematicians entered the world of spies, secrets and espionage as they became code-breakers — inspired by an original Enigma machine. Year Seven girls at Bolton School had a chance to see the ...

If you’ve been on social media lately, you will have seen it – the viral ad in which Alan Turing is brought back to life by the artificial intelligence he made possible, to promote a firm selling ...