Bletchley Park is famous for the code-breaking and intelligence gathering work done here in World War II. It was here, for example, that the German Enigma code was famously broken.The Website of the Bletchley Park Trust gives access to the whole history of the 19th century mansion which was known during the War as Station X.The site describes the Trust's future plans for the site as a fully integrated heritage park illustrating the science of communications, as well as displaying a broad range of links to other sites that deal with encryption technology, World War II, and related interests. These include two simulations of the Enigma machine, which enable you to type in your own text and see it reappear as the machine would have encoded it. Other links give details of the Maths at Work initiative and teachers' pack, the Winston Churchill and Alan Turing homepages, the Computer Conservation Society and the American National Security Agency.There is also updated information on the site detailing the theft of the Enigma machine that has been in the news recently.There is an annual diary of opening times and events. For virtual visitors there is also a mail-order page.
