BOOK : Saving Bletchley Park, The story of the saving of the home of modern computing by Sue Black

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Saving Bletchley Park
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The story of the saving of the home of modern computing by Sue Black

The Synopsis
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This is a story about saving Bletchley Park, one of the UK=92s most
important sites of historical significance. It begins with Alan Turing
and the team of codebreakers who worked there during World War II, and
it ends with plans to transform it into the world class heritage and
education centre it deserves to be. In between is the story of the
hundreds of people who have dedicated years of hard work and
determination to save it.

This is also a story about technology, and how it can be employed to
extraordinary effect. Bletchley Park was the birthplace of the modern
computer =96 70 years later, this technology enabled a social media
campaign that helped to secure Bletchley Park=92s long term future. That
same technology will also help to fund this book =96 a fitting testament
to the achievements of this remarkable team of computing pioneers.

In this book, you=92ll learn about some of the mysterious work that took
place at Bletchley Park, and the significance this had to the outcome of
World War II. You=92ll also find out about Alan Turing =96 technology
pioneer, mathematical genius and one of the most remarkable Britons who
ever lived. It=92s also the story of the thousands of women who worked at
Bletchley Park =96 an inspiration for the growing number of women working
in the field of computing and technology.

But what this book is mostly about is the 20 years of campaigning to
save Bletchley Park by hundreds of extraordinary people, and how
casually it seems that some of our most significant historical sites can
be swept away to make room for housing estates or supermarkets. It=92s a
book about campaigners, veterans, enthusiasts and computer geeks, as
well as Twitter, trees, and Stephen Fry stuck in a lift.

On more than one occasion Bletchley Park has been in the shadow of
bulldozers, but it still stands as a testament to those who worked there
during World War II, and those who have tirelessly campaigned to save
it. During the many years that Bletchley Park=92s future has hung in the
balance, the campaign has been kept alive by the unerring belief that
something so significant to our wartime victory in 1945 should be
preserved for future generations.

The journey has been over 70 years in the making, and it makes for a
really quite extraordinary story. In this book, I=92m going to attempt to
tell it.

10% of all profits from this project will go to Bletchley Park.


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Saving Bletchley Park :
How #socialmedia saved the home of the WWII codebreakers
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by Sue Black, Stevyn Colgan

Hardcover
368 pages
Publisher : Unbound
10 Mar. 2016
ISBN-10 : 1908717920
ISBN-13 : 978-1908717924
Product Dimensions : 16 x 3 x 23.9 cm

Imagine a Britain where the most important sites of historical
significance are replaced with housing estates and supermarkets=85

Imagine a Britain without Bletchley Park, where Alan Turing and a team
of code breakers changed the course of World War II and where thousands
of women inspired future generations with their work in the fields of
computing and technology...

Now imagine a group of extraordinary people, who =96 seventy years after
the birth of the modern computer at Bletchley Park =96 used technology to
spark a social media campaign that helped secure its future and
transform it into the world-class heritage and education centre it
deserves to be.

This is a story about saving Bletchley Park.

But it is also the story of the hundreds of people who dedicated twenty
years of hard work and determination to the campaign that saved it. It
is a testament to the remarkable and mysterious work during World War II=20
that made it a place worth saving. It is a book about campaigners,
veterans, enthusiasts, computer geeks, technology, Twitter, trees and
Stephen Fry stuck in a lift.

And finally, it is a story about preserving the past for the generations=20
of tomorrow.


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