Back in 2007 a gang of us got together from the BBC and Yahoo! and brought Hack Days from the States to the UK. The event was called Hack07 and there was a great deal of talk about how we’d create a space that was …
Introduction
All visitors to Bletchley Park are offered ‘wands’. These are digital audio guides that visitors carry around the park with them. The only controls are a numeric keypad and standard playback buttons. As the visitor proceeds around the park, signs at various points of interest …
We are very excited to announce that Dr. Sue Black will be delivering the opening keynote talk for this year’s Over the Air! A senior research associate at University College London, Dr. Black has been tireless in her support of Bletchley Park and of women …
As a free bonus for all Over the Air attendees, we have organized site tours of our historic Venue, Bletchley Park on both Friday September 30th and Saturday October 1st. The tours will take about one and a half hours and will cover all the …
Kids have always been welcome at Over the Air. One of our young attendees famously helped to demonstrate an accelerometer-based “sword fighting” game on stage during the competition presentations at our first event, and returned in 2009 to participate in a “teenage dragon’s den” panel.
Kids …
by Katy Lewis
Published on 28/05/2009 on the BBC History Features.
Former Bletchley Park Wren, Jean Valentine, reveals exactly what went on at the World War II codebreaking centre.
The story of codebreaking at Bletchley Park during the Second World War and its massive contribution to the British …
As reported by the BBC on September 4, 2011:
A formerly secret government document has been presented to the only surviving wartime codebreaker who wrote it.
The declassified document was handed by intelligence agency GCHQ to codebreaker Mavis Batey at Bletchley Park Mansion, Buckinghamshire earlier.
Mrs Batey, 90, …
The greatest thing about proper hack days is that you get to work as long, or as little, as you like. I find the small hours of the morning my most productive time – hanging around Bletchley Park overnight at Over The Air is going …
Many of you may have heard the sad news of the death of Tony Sale, one of the founders of the Bletchley Park Trust and a key campaigner for its rescue and restoration. Mr. Sale had a long career as a talented engineer with an avid interest …