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Newnham and Bletchley Park: Women’s Work in World War II

Tue 14 January

Zoom Video Conferencing

Mill Road History Society kicks off our 2025 season of talks with the incredible story of Newnham College women’s work in the second world war.

An exhibition unveiled earlier this year revealed the hidden stories of a large number of women from Newnham College, Cambridge, who were quietly recruited for secret work at Bletchley Park in World War II. In this talk Dr Sally Waugh, one of the three curators of the exhibition, will discuss how research identified the women involved, describe some of the women and the work that they did, and consider the impact on the private lives of this group of previously unrecognised women.

Dr Sally Waugh, a Newnham alumna, designs tailor-made programmes for learning mathematics. Sally has worked for many years alongside the Isaac Physics STEM education project which operates from The Cavendish Laboratory in Cambridge.

This event takes place on Zoom. The link to join will use sent to our mailing list the day before the talk.

https://newn.cam.ac.uk/about/history-college/newnham-and-bletchley-park
https://www.millroadhistory.org.uk/mailing-list/

Cost: Free