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 ...

A CODE breaker who was instrumental in helping to bring down Hitler and end the Second World War has been honoured after more than 60 years. John Whiteside, aged 92, worked with some of the country’s ...

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 ...

This show by Dr. Mark Baldwin is one of the Second World War’s most fascinating stories is that of the Allied Codebreakers, who deciphered a vast number of German secret messages and used the ...

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 ...

The de-coding of enemy messages using the Enigma machine was hugely important to the outcome of World War Two, and Jersey now has a working example. It was one of the most important achievements by ...