Seventy seven #women #BletchleyPark codebreakers from #WWII revealed for the first time.

Many of them took the secret to their graves.

"Whenever one of the graduates, Jane Monroe – a #mathematician who worked in #cryptanalysis in Hut 6 at Bletchley Park, deciphering the coded messages sent on German Enigma machines around the clock – was asked what she did during the war, she would always say: “Oh, I made the tea.”"

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/mar/17/cambridge-newnham-college-alumnae-bletchley-park-codebreakers

#womenintech #womenshistorymonth

Cambridge college unmasks alumnae who were Bletchley Park codebreakers

Names of 77 ex-students of women-only Newnham College who worked at Bletchley Park are revealed for first time

The Guardian
@benroyce “made the tea” = “spilled the German tea”
@bucknam
Spilled the German ersatz coffee, more like!
@benroyce