Meet the author: Alan Turing's Manchester

The National Museum of Computing (TNMOC) is home to the world's largest collection of working historic computers.Follow the development of computing: from the Turing-Welchman Bombe and Colossus of the 1940s through the large systems and mainframes of the 1950s, 60s and 70s, to the rise of personal computing and the rise of mobile computing and the internet.Recognised as one of England’s top 100 ‘irreplaceable places’, we welcome corporate and group visits, schools and individuals from all over the world.We are normally open Tuesday to Friday 10:30 -17:00, Saturday & Sunday 10:30 – 17:00. Please check tickets for actual opening days and times.TNMOC operates independently of Bletchley Park Trust, although we are located on the Bletchley Park Estate.To visit us, go through the main Bletchley Park entrance, through the barrier, walk or drive bearing left beyond the main car parks, to our separate entrance located at the top of the Park.Visit their website here for more information.https://www.tnmoc.org/Sat Nav users: please use the postcode for the railway station MK3 6DS on Sherwood Drive and then follow signs. The postcode for Bletchley Park will actually take you to an old entrance which is closed.

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Writer and mathematician Jonathan Swinton picks up the Alan Turing story in Manchester.

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Manchester is proud of Alan Turing but does it deserve to be? Jonathan Swinton&#x27;s book <a href="https://www.thehistorypress.co.uk/publication/alan-turings-manchester/9780750999946/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Alan Turing’s Manchester</a> book explores the complexity of the city Turing encountered in 1948. His book is a richly illustrated account of the lives lived – and of one cut tragically short. In this online talk for TNMOC, Jonathan will tour this smog-bound, bombed-out city that was busy creating one of the first computers: you will encounter wire women and visit the university seminar rooms and the pickup sites of Oxford Road. Jonathan will look at how the tensions of class, gender, and sexuality converged at a time of great technical innovation and at the consequences this had for Alan Turing and the development of post-war British computing.

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