“My heart leapt!” Miss Hester Marguerite Sorel-Cameron, later Dick-Lauder, was a Foreign Office Civilian who worked at Bletchley Park from 1941 to 1944. Initially based in Hut 6, Hester later moved to Hut 8, where she worked to break codes by comparing messages. “On one particular occasion I remember doing just that and broke it myself!” Hester recalled the importance of the work, despite its often laborious nature, and how staff were instructed to describe their jobs simply as working for “a branch of the Foreign Office”. In 1944, Hester left Bletchley Park to become a driver for the Red Cross in Edinburgh. Read Hester’s full interview from the Bletchley Park Oral History Project here: ow.ly/Hv8B50ZYoNu Interview recorded September 2016.

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“I never felt that I had any idea of the bigger picture of things.” Miss Mary Evans, later Sister St Paul, served in Hut 6, listing incoming Luftwaffe Enigma signals. Signals were intercepted at stations around the country and sent to Bletchley Park, where Mary and her colleagues worked on the coded material. “This coded material came into our hut and if we were lucky enough to know the right requirements for the day we could work on these.” Like many who worked at Bletchley Park, Mary had no idea how significant her work was. Everyone had sworn to keep their work secret. “I rather think that other people simply thought that we were doing something quite useless like sticking on stamps.” Read Mary’s full interview from the Bletchley Park Oral History Project here: ow.ly/s1K350ZQ4fQ Interview recorded June 2019.

Earlier this year, Bletchley Park Trust welcomed popular science and engineering YouTube channel @veritasium to help decode the story of World War Two and support the Trust’s mission to tell the story of the Allied Codebreakers. Watch the full video on the Veritasium YouTube channel. Come and see it for yourself. Plan your visit and book your ticket today: ow.ly/NLWf50ZQCr7

🎙️ New Podcast (E195) - Bed and Board Where did thousands of Bletchley Park staff live and eat during World War Two? In this episode, Erica Munro, Head of Content at Bletchley Park Trust, and Research Officer Dr Thomas Cheetham get to grips with the pressures involved in finding bed and board for thousands of staff during a time of national strife. We also hear from more than a dozen Veterans who shared their experiences and memories as part of Bletchley Park Trust’s oral history project. Listen here: ow.ly/7Wo450ZQt4F Image: Three women inside Hut 147, Church Green camp: Audrey Wilkinson, Paddy Payne and ‘Flynn’.