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Bletchley Park Week

Bletchley Park 2024

Kellogg has a unique partnership with Bletchley Park. This special connection is celebrated annually with a series of events showcasing the importance of the work carried out at Bletchley Park during World War II, and its relevance today.

Bletchley Park Week 18 – 23 February 2024

Bletchley and Beyond: Ethics of Computing in Past, Present, and Future

Our programme of events will be taking place during 6th week, starting on Sunday 18 of February with a trip to Bletchley Park itself, and wrapping up on Friday 23 February with a lecture on the recent history of cryptography at war.

What's on 2024

Take a look at some of our 2023 events:

The Bletchley Park Codebreakers: In their own words Book launch

From Geographical Intelligence to Major Head Injuries

Oxford’s War: County, City, and University, 1939-45

‘Nice Girls’ and ‘Professor-Types’

 

Why does Kellogg have a Bletchley Park Week?

President Professor Jonathan Michie explains

Previous Bletchley Park Week events

Watch the recordings of previous Bletchley Park Week events

Book Author Pages Genre
The Bletchley Park Codebreakers: in their own words Joel Greenbery 337 Biography
The Women Behind the Few: The Women’s Auxiliary Air Force and British Intelligence During World War Two Sarah-Louise Miller 304 Biography (released 9 March 2023)
The Last Cambridge Spy: John Cairncross, Bletchley Codebreaker and Soviet Double Agent Chris Smith 256 Biography
My Secret Life in Hut Six: One Woman’s Experiences at Bletchley Park Mair Russell-Jones 264 Biography
A Bletchley Park Wren Overseas Rosemary Brierley 280 Biography
Alan Turing: The Troubled Genius of Bletchley Park Hall Ray Spangenburg 133 Biography
Secret Postings: Bletchley Park to the Pentagon Charlotte Webb 134 Biography
The Ultra Secret: The Inside Story of Operation Ultra, Bletchley Park and Enigma F.W. Winterbotham 214 Biography
A Grand Gossip: The Bletchley Park Diary of Basil Cottle, 1943-45 Basil Cottle 178 Contemporary diary
The Last Truth: Bletchley Park (Legacy of Lies #2) Leann Harris 385 Fiction
In Farleigh Field Rhys Bowen 397 Fiction
The Code Girls Daisy Styles 458 Fiction
Enigma Robert Harris 464 Fiction
The Amber Shadows Lucy Ribchester 464 Fiction
The Geese That Won the War Marilyn Ludwig 304 Fiction
Brighter Days Ahead Mary Wood 432 Fiction
Assignment Bletchley: A WWII Novel of Navy Intelligence, Spies and Intrigue (Commander Romella, USN, WWII Assignments series Book 1) Peter J. Azzole 188 Fiction
Dear Codebreaker Kerry Howard 198 Letters between a code breaker and her brother
Station X: The Codebreakers of Bletchley Park Michael Smith 224 Non-fiction
Dilly: The Man Who Broke Enigma Mavis Batey 244 Non-fiction
Churchill and Tito: SOE, Bletchley Park and Supporting the Yugoslav Communists in World War II Christopher Catherwood 256 Non-fiction
Gordon Welchman: Bletchley Park’s Architect of Ultra Intelligence Joel Greenberg 288 Non-fiction
Bletchley Park and D-Day: From Codebreaking to Intelligence – The Untold Story of How the Battle for Normandy Was Won David Kenyon 320 Non-fiction
Codebreakers: The Inside Story of Bletchley Park F.H. Hinsley 352 Non-fiction
Saving Bletchley Park: How #socialmedia saved the home of the WWII codebreakers Sue Black 368 Non-fiction
The Emperor’s Codes: The Breaking of Japan’s Secret Ciphers Michael Smith 368 Non-fiction
The Secret Life of Bletchley Park: The WWII Codebreaking Centre and the Men and Women Who Worked There Sinclair McKay 372 Non-fiction
Alan Turing: The Enigma Andrew Hodges 768 Non-fiction
Bletchley Park People: Churchill’s Geese That Never Cackled Marion Hill 144 Non-fiction based on testimonies and archives
The Bletchley Girls Tessa Dunlop 352 Non-fiction, biographies
The Lost World of Bletchley Park: The Official Illustrated History of the Wartime Codebreaking Centre Sinclair McKay 192 Non-fiction
The Debs of Bletchley Park and Other Stories Michael Smith 304 Non-fiction, stories from women who worked at BP.
The Girl from Bletchley Park Matthew Broadbent 252 Novel
A Wren’s Tale – the Secret Link to Bletchley Park: Memoirs of a Radio Mechanic at Scarborough Listening Station in the Second World War Muriel Davison 56
Another Together (The Next Together, #1.5) Lauren James 59
House of Secrets: A Bletchley Park Novella W. Len 108
Children of Bletchley Park: With the Code Breakers Neville J. Anderson-Budd 116

Enigma Machine Demonstration

Bletchley Park’s Outreach Learning Officer Andrew Fryer and Exhibitions Manager Erica Munro take a closer look at an Enigma machine and how it works.

0:52 – What is an Enigma machine?

1:07 – How does an Enigma machine work?

2:02 – How do the Enigma rotors work?

3:04 – How do you set up an Enigma machine?

3:14 – Enigma settings sheet

11:34 – Enigma plugboard set up

14:34 – Enigma three letter password