WWII expert Dr Mark Baldwin presents a talk on the Enigma machine and wartime codebreakers at Worcester Huntingdon Hall, 20 May. Tickets £23.

One of the Second World War’s most fascinating stories is that of the Allied codebreakers, who deciphered a vast number of German secret messages by decrypting their ingenious ciphering machine, the ...

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The Enigma code was a fiendish cipher that took Alan Turing and his fellow codebreakers a herculean effort to crack. Yet experts say it would have crumbled in the face of modern computing. While ...

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