About this event

Sir Dermot Turing, Alan Turing’s nephew, will talk about his uncle’s work at Bletchley Park, the origins of the machinery approach to code-breaking, and how this developed at Bletchley. During the course of World War 2 the Government Code and Cypher School transformed decryption from the work of cottage artisans to an industrial-scale intelligence factory. Alan Turing’s lesser-known role in the Machine Coordination and Development section casts light on one of the other secrets of the War – just what was Alan Turing doing after his work on Enigma?

‌About the Speaker, Sir John Dermot Turing

Dermot Turing spent his career in the legal profession, most recently as a partner of Clifford Chance. He is now focusing on the history of cryptology and is active as a trustee of Bletchley Park. Dermot Turing is the nephew of Alan Turing and author of the latest biography on Turing (‘Prof’: Alan Turing Decoded, published in 2015 by The History Press).