During the darkest days of 1940, German U-boats were sinking Allied ships at terrifying rates. Britain depended on Atlantic convoys for survival. Without them, starvation and defeat were inevitable.

Discover 25 interesting things you didn't know about World War II. From bat bombs to a man who survived two atomic blasts, ...

Writing from year after gross indecency arrest challenges ‘isolated mathematician’ image, says Cambridge academic ...

Children having their left hand tied behind their back, beatings by the headteacher and accusations of witchcraft.

Alan Turing is a towering figure in the history of computer science. The British mathematician's work in the early- to mid-20th century established a foundation for digital computer processing and ...

The 'father of modern computing' Alan Turing defiantly embraced his homosexuality in an unpublished short story ...

'Mary Body was one of our town’s many unsung heroes who worked in complete secrecy, and we are honoured to commemorate her life’s work' ...

A new museum in this redeveloped country house relives its fascinating period as a palatial prison of war camp – with Jewish refugees listening in from the basement ...

Prof Sarah Dillon says the short story, Pryce's Buoy, offers fresh insights into the codebreaker.

The unpublished work "Pryce's Buoy" is a six-page, handwritten fragment of a short story written by the famous mathematician ...

For decades, Elizebeth Smith Friedman worked in near-total secrecy, cracking codes that shaped the outcome of two world wars. Recently declassified, the full extent of her story is still coming to lig ...