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SUMMARY:Bletchley Park Week: The Secret Lives of Women at Bletchley Park L
 ecture - Paddy O’Connell\, Mary Heneghan
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20250225T173000Z
DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20250225T183000Z
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DESCRIPTION:We are pleased to welcome you to join us for this lecture and 
 panel discussion as part of our Bletchley Park Week events.\n\nBy 1945\, s
 eventy-five percent of the staff at Bletchley Park were women. Having sign
 ed the Official Secrets Act and taking their vows of secrecy extremely ser
 iously\, many of these women did not speak about or reveal their war servi
 ce at Bletchley to anyone until decades after the conclusion of the confli
 ct. Some never did. In this session\,  TV and radio host Paddy O’Connell
  and Mary Heneghan\, great-niece of Daphne Mary Moss\, who worked at Bletc
 hley Park\, will discuss the ways in which\, against societal expectations
 \, women at Bletchley kept their work secret\, and the ways in which their
  stories have been revealed. Paddy and Mary will share how they discovered
  that they each had a relative who worked at Bletchley.\n\nThe panel will 
 be chaired by Kellogg College President\, Prof Jonathan Michie\, whose fat
 her Donald Michie was a code breaker along with Alan Turning at Bletchley 
 Park.\n\nSpeakers:\n\nPaddy O’Connell is a TV and Radio host. He worked 
 with his late Mum\, Betty on the history of Bletchley Park. She was a wart
 ime WREN and assisted his broadcasts towards the end of her life. Paddy an
 chors BBC Radio Four’s Sunday morning hit programme “Broadcasting Hous
 e\,” and he hosts “Newsnight” on BBC 2. He is an Ambassador for the 
 Royal Marine Charity and an Orwell Prize judge.\n\nBetty worked at Bletchl
 ey Park on the Heath Robinson and Colossus machines from 1943. She returne
 d to Bletchley Park often and wanted people – especially young women –
  to know the story. She appeared in a talk in Oxford on this subject just 
 before the pandemic. After her death\, Paddy discovered a diary in her att
 ic about her social life in the final months of the war.\n\nThis in-person
  event is free and open to all. Refreshments will be served from 5.00 pm\,
  followed by the talk at 5.30 pm. There will be a Q&A session after the ta
 lk\, and a drinks reception.\n\nBletchley Park Week:\n\nThis event is part
  of our annual Bletchley Park Week programme of events celebrating a partn
 ership between Oxford and Bletchley Park. This year’s event is entitled 
 ‘Women at Bletchley‘\n\nJoin the conversation on social #codekellogg\n
 \nPlease note:\n\nThis event may be photographed and filmed. If you do not
  wish to appear in the photographs/footage\, please let the photographer/v
 ideographer know.\n\nShould you have any further queries\, or unable to at
 tend after booking\, please contact events@kellogg.ox.ac.uk.\nSpeakers:\nP
 addy O’Connell\, Mary Heneghan
LOCATION:Kellogg College (The Hub)\, 62 Banbury Road OX2 6PN
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