The Hidden Literary World of Bletchley Park

  • Natalie Ferris (Assessor)

Activity: Academic talk or presentation types › Invited talk

Description

Invited talk given as part of the School of Literatures, Languages and Cultures annual Spy Week.

Bletchley Park, a country estate close to Milton Keynes, became the headquarters of the Government Code and Cypher School in 1939. While it played a crucial role in the government’s wartime intelligence operations, it also inspired the creative lives of its operatives. As part of Edinburgh Spy Week 2019, Dr Natalie Ferris will explore the little-known literary world that flourished at Bletchley Park, and ask what hold it continued to have over post-war British culture.
Period11 Apr 2019
Held atNational Library of Scotland
Degree of RecognitionRegional

Keywords

  • bletchley park
  • espionage
  • Spy Fiction
  • Christine Brooke-Rose
  • modernism
  • poetry
  • poet
  • intelligence work
  • surveillance
  • Translation
  • codebreaking
  • signals
  • German
  • Sound
  • intercept
  • F T Prince
  • Henry Reed
  • Angus Wilson
  • novel
  • novelists
  • artists
  • Technology