Alan Turing, a crack code-breaker and visionary mathematician who was convicted under Victorian-era homophobic laws, will be the face of Britain's new £50 note. Alan Turing, a crack code-breaker and ...

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.

Log-in to bookmark & organize content - it's free! International Spy Museum historian and curator Andrew Hammond provided a tour of the Museum, highlighting the World War II era German Enigma machine ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Rare papers of Enigma codebreaker Alan Turing fetch record sum at UK auction A collection of rare scientific papers written by ...

One of the last Enigma coding machines that the Nazis used to send encrypted messages during the Second World War has sold at auction. The device was valued between £50,000 and £70,000 but sold for a ...

Former codebreaker, Ruth Bourne, photographed for The Telegraph earlier this year - Andrew Crowley If you presented 99-year-old Ruth Bourne with a Bombe, the electromechanical code-breaking machine ...

The Bank of England began circulating its new £50 bank notes featuring World War II codebreaker Alan Turing on Wednesday, which would have been the pioneering math genius’ 109th birthday. Often ...

Alan Turing, who was a codebreaker during World War 2, is the first gay man to be featured on British currency, NBC News reported. In a press release, the Bank of England said the new 50 pound note ...