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SUMMARY:Fireside Chat | The Codebreakers\, Part 1: Bletchley Park and the B
 rits who Broke the Code
LOCATION:Large Meeting Room\, Lewes Public Library
URL:https://shoplocaldelmarva.com/events/fireside-chat-the-codebreakers-par
 t-1-bletchley-park-and-the-brits-who-broke-the-code-2026-10-25/
DESCRIPTION:In-person or Online\nJoin us in-person in the library or online
  for a presentation by Fireside Chat host Paul Sparrow and Science &  Soci
 ety's Fred Dylla.\nBehind the ornate exterior of a beautiful country estat
 e in Buckingham Shire\, a top secret team of men and women broke the Nazi 
 codes and helped win the war for the Allies. Working tirelessly for years\
 , they built the world's first digital computer\, decrypted Hitler's Enigm
 a machine\, and gave Winston Churchill vital intelligence on German milita
 ry plans. The "dark art" of writing in code dates back to the ancient Egyp
 tians and Romans. And the efforts to break those codes go back just as far
 . Codebreaking was a vital weapon used in the Napoleonic Wars\, the Americ
 an Civil War\, World War I and II\, and through the Cold War right up to t
 oday.\nBletchley Park was the epicenter of British Intelligence codebreaki
 ng\, and 75% of the people doing the work were women. They worked in top s
 ecrecy\, and many of them were never able to reveal their contributions to
  winning the war due to the Official Secrets Acts. Some of the most brilli
 ant mathematicians and electrical engineers in the world were pitted again
 st each other - working to create unbreakable codes\, while at the same ti
 me trying to decipher their enemy's unbreakable codes.\nFred Dylla and Pau
 l Sparrow will present a detailed exploration of Bletchley Park during the
  darkest days of World War II\, the impossible task that the codebreakers 
 faced\, and how they were able to change the co…\n\nhttps://shoplocaldel
 marva.com/events/fireside-chat-the-codebreakers-part-1-bletchley-park-and-
 the-brits-who-broke-the-code-2026-10-25/
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