Former codebreaker, Ruth Bourne, photographed for The Telegraph earlier this year - Andrew Crowley If you presented 99-year-old Ruth Bourne with a Bombe, the electromechanical code-breaking machine ...

During the darkest days of 1940, German U-boats were sinking Allied ships at terrifying rates. Britain depended on Atlantic ...

Bletchley Park was the home of British war-time codebreaking but it's not just a historical curiosity and still has relevance today; even some of Facebook's engineering breakthroughs can be traced all ...

Hidden wartime footage of a secret World War II code-breaking site in Southern England has been discovered. The footage is of Whaddon Hall in Buckinghamshire, a secret site connected to the famous ...

When a handful of specialist electronics engineers sat down to recreate a working replica of a famous Second World War code-breaking machine little did they know that soon they'd have a vital role to ...

BLETCHLEY PARK, England — During World War II, the best brains in Britain cracked Germany’s encrypted secrets but never broke their own code of silence. Now gray-haired and using walking sticks and at ...

Tributes have been paid to Second World War Bletchley Park codebreaker Ruth Bourne, who has died at the age of 99. Ms Bourne, who grew up in Birmingham but lived High Barnet in north London, worked as ...

A World War Two codebreaker who worked at Bletchley Park as a Bombe machine operator and checker has died at the age of 98. Ruth Bourne, a Jewish veteran from High Barnet, north London, joined the ...

Betty Webb had originally signed up with the Auxiliary Territorial Service (ATS), with her reasoning per a 2012 interview being that she and a couple of like-minded students felt that they ought to be ...