Simon Thomas  Mar 18, 2024
ᴮᵉⁿ ᴿᵒʸᶜᵉVOTE IN THE PRIMARIES

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
Mar 17, 2024 at 3:38pmWeb
Show threadJohn Caveney woke is me🛠️Mar 17, 2024
@benroyce Speaking of incredible women, how many of us know that the WSPU, women’s social and political union (Suffragettes) actually campaigned for universal suffrage. It’s because of them, that I, a mere man, have the vote in the UK today! A debt I’m unable to fully repay! 🤓
Show threadOstfriesinMar 17, 2024

@benroyce

Bletchley Park codebreakers - Courageous women, didn't need to brag about the great things they did for all of us in WWII.

Show threadpeacememoriesMar 17, 2024
@benroyce now I want "making tea" to be the new slang for crypto analysis and code breaking
Show threadskribe 🇺🇦 Mar 18, 2024
@peacememories @benroyce I'll use it in my current screenplay. It might even get made.
Show threadDragon-sided DMar 17, 2024
@benroyce It is useful sometimes to reflect on the incredibly positive ethical and social advances we have made over the last 80 years.
Show threadAlan BucknamMar 17, 2024
@benroyce “made the tea” = “spilled the German tea”
Show threadStone Bear (has moved)Mar 18, 2024
@bucknam @benroyce The bit in Imagination Game where one of the lady monitors nails her radioman for having a girlfriend (and thus provides the crib to break Enigma) is fictional but precisely the kind of thing a *woman* would figure out... And all the women in the world were perfectly safe with Alan Turing around...
Show threadMarsh RayMar 18, 2024
@benroyce Those who know don’t talk.
Show threadMichael VilainMar 18, 2024
@benroyce And Julia Child "just worked in the typing pool" at OSS HQ during WWII. They became the CIA after the war.