Bletchley Park, the professional home of codebreaker Alan Turing, will celebrate LGBT History Month with a special event on Sunday 28 February.
Focusing on the life and work of the World War II mathematician, it will feature talks about Turing’s wartime achievements and issues surrounding LGBT History month in the Milton Keynes area, plus a documentary and the chance to see Turing's office in Hut 8.
Visitors will also be able to see the Bombe machine invented by Turing and Gordon Welchman.
Frank Carter, a college lecturer in mathematics and a longtime guide and researcher at Bletchley Park, will deliver a lecture entitled The Wartime Achievements of Alan Turing.
Meanwhile, Tony Fenwick, co-founder and Chair of LGBT History Month, will host a debate called Why We Need To Claim Our History.
Also known as Station X, Bletchley Park was a highly secretive wartime
facility whose existence was denied for more than thirty years after
the war.
The code-breakers of Bletchley Park, including Turing, pioneered the
use of the world’s first supercomputers to decrypt codes generated by
the German Enigma and Lorenz Machines.