ETHEL Houston, who has died aged 93, was the first woman to be appointed as a senior partner in a Scottish law firm when she was named to the post by Balfour + Manson in Edinburgh in 1949 and remained ...

LONDON (Reuters) - At the secluded country house where the country's top computer scientists cracked the "unbreakable" Nazi Enigma code, a key factor in victory in World War Two, Britain has begun a ...

YOUNG mathematicians entered the world of spies, secrets and espionage as they became code-breakers — inspired by an original Enigma machine. Year Seven girls at Bolton School had a chance to see the ...

BLETCHLEY PARK, England -- During World War II, the best brains in Britain cracked Germany's encrypted secrets but never broke their own code of silence. Now gray-haired and using walking sticks and ...

Code- and cipher-breaking have been in operation for centuries. However, cryptanalysis – the art of deciphering encoded messages – took on a new importance during WW2 as British boffins strived to ...

Bletchley Park is now internationally famous as the home of the code-breakers during World War Two. But the endeavours of Alan Turing, Dilly Knox and their colleagues were so top secret that we are ...