Bletchley Park board member quits amid TNMOC split-off spat

10 Mar 2014

Bletchley Park board member quits amid TNMOC split-off spat
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Trust needs 'more women at high level', sniffs departing doc

By Jasper Hamill

A Bletchley Park Trust board member has stepped down in protest against 
the charity's failure to sort out a long-running dispute with the National 
Museum of Computing.

Dr Sue Black, senior research associate at University College London's 
department of computer science, quit the Trust's board at the end of last 
year.

She announced this decision for the first time over the weekend, in a blog 
post which suggested "mediation is the solution" to the "bitter dispute".

The National Museum of Computing ( TNMOC ) and the Bletchley Park Trust 
have been locked in conflict for some time.

Their barney reached new heights this year after the Trust erected fences 
to prevent visitors to Bletchley from visiting TNMoC and allegedly sacked 
a volunteer for taking a tour party across enemy lines to see TNMOC, 
which, amongst other rare and valuable exhibits, houses a working replica 
of the World War Two Colossus code-cracking machine.

The Register has covered the ongoing Bletchley barney for some time and 
Sue Black has never acknowledged our emails, let alone replied to them.

She has sat on the Bletchley Park Trust board since 2012 and has "stressed 
about" the squabble ever since then...../snip/


http://www.theregister.co.uk/2014/03/10/bletchley_park_trust_sue_black_quits_bletchley_park_trust_board/

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2014/02/24/national_museum_of_computing_calls_for_independent_review/