Keynote by Sue Black at the Over The Air conference at Bletchley Park on September 30th 2011.
www.sueblack.co.uk
savingbletchleypark.org
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https://savingclissoldpark.com
Clissold Park, the jewel at the heart of Stoke Newington wouldn’t exist if it hadn’t been for a passionate local campaign in the 1880s to save to then private estate from development. As the last remaining open space in the area, the prospect of losing it to the “jerry builder” prompted concerned local residents to mobilise and lobby various bodies to raise the funds to purchase the park for the public.
The story of the turbulent campaign can now be told for the first time in vivid and dramatic detail through the recent discovery of press clippings, letters and maps, all kept by Joseph Beck, the chief campaigner and faithfully preserved by his family for over 127 years.
https://savingclissoldpark.com
Clissold Park, the jewel at the heart of Stoke Newington wouldn’t exist if it hadn’t been for a passionate local campaign in the 1880s to save to then private estate from development. As the last remaining open space in the area, the prospect of losing it to the “jerry builder” prompted concerned local residents to mobilise and lobby various bodies to raise the funds to purchase the park for the public.
The story of the turbulent campaign can now be told for the first time in vivid and dramatic detail through the recent discovery of press clippings, letters and maps, all kept by Joseph Beck, the chief campaigner and faithfully preserved by his family for over 127 years.
Bletchley Park is the historic site of secret British codebreaking activities during World War II and birthplace of the modern computer. The work carried out there is said to have shortened WWII by two years, saving possibly 22 million lives.
The Park is now a museum, with a 26 acre site, many exhibitions and working rebuilds of machines such as the Colossus, a forerunner of today's computers, invented to mechanise codebreaking. The museum is staffed by a 75% volunteer workforce and is grossly underfunded compared to its historical importance.
Dr Sue Black visited Bletchley Park in July 2008, and she was so appalled at the state of decay of this important site that she started a campaign to get the true historic value of the site recognised and to save it from being lost to the nation. She sent a letter to the UK broadsheet newspaper The Times signed by 97 eminent UK computer scientists, which was published and highlighted in BBC television and radio news broadcasts.
Following traditional media coverage, a blog was established, and then social media (particularly Twitter) used to great effect to raise awareness and support for the campaign. Campaign efforts have received national coverage on television, on radio, and in the press and have contributed to the Park recently receiving £4.6 million funding from the UK Heritage Lottery Fund.
In this lecture, Simon Greenish, Director of Bletchley Park, will describe the history of Bletchley Park from the Domesday Book through to the present day and gives an insight into its fundamental contribution to the ending of World War Two.
Dr Sue Black will describe the campaign to save Bletchley Park, exploring the effectiveness of traditional vs. social media, highlighting how the use of social media has contributed greatly to campaign success. Since the Saving Bletchley Park campaign started, visitor numbers have increased, along with public awareness of the contribution of the site to world heritage and the history of the computer.
This public lecture is part of the Computer Science Athena Swan initiative to promote women in science.
Slides for "Turing 2.0(12)" a talk given by Dr Sue Black at the "Turing's Worlds" conference held to celebrate the 100th anniversary of Turing's birth on 23/6/12.
Dr Sue Black's presentation about the amazing tech heritage we have in the UK and why we need to get everyone in the UK more tech savvy to enable innovation and thus a better UK economy.
Slides from my talk about the campaign to save Bletchley Park. The work done at Bletchley Park shortened WW2 by two years possibly saving 11 million lives. It is also the birthplace of the computer.
From Bletchley Park to modern computing: the value of TwitterSue Black
Bletchley Park is the historic site of secret British codebreaking activities during World War II and the work carried out there by Alan Turing and others led to the birth of the modern computer. How did we get from Bletchley Park to modern software engineering? Dr Black will discuss how the use of social media can leverage capability in very diverse areas, from campaigning for a historical site to improving the quality of software.
Speaker: Dr Sue Black, Senior Research Associate, UCL Department of Computer Science
http://events.ucl.ac.uk/event/event:gkr-h9smshux-zhsk26/lunch-hour-lecture-from-bletchley-park-to-modern-computing-the-value-of-twitter
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Bletchley Park is the historic site of secret British codebreaking activities during World War II and birthplace of the modern computer. The work carried out there is said to have shortened WWII by two years, saving possibly 22 million lives.
The Park is now a museum, with a 26 acre site, many exhibitions and working rebuilds of machines such as the Colossus, a forerunner of today's computers, invented to mechanise codebreaking. The museum is staffed by a 75% volunteer workforce and is grossly underfunded compared to its historical importance.
Dr Sue Black visited Bletchley Park in July 2008, and she was so appalled at the state of decay of this important site that she started a campaign to get the true historic value of the site recognised and to save it from being lost to the nation. She sent a letter to the UK broadsheet newspaper The Times signed by 97 eminent UK computer scientists, which was published and highlighted in BBC television and radio news broadcasts.
Following traditional media coverage, a blog was established, and then social media (particularly Twitter) used to great effect to raise awareness and support for the campaign. Campaign efforts have received national coverage on television, on radio, and in the press and have contributed to the Park recently receiving £4.6 million funding from the UK Heritage Lottery Fund.
In this lecture, Simon Greenish, Director of Bletchley Park, will describe the history of Bletchley Park from the Domesday Book through to the present day and gives an insight into its fundamental contribution to the ending of World War Two.
Dr Sue Black will describe the campaign to save Bletchley Park, exploring the effectiveness of traditional vs. social media, highlighting how the use of social media has contributed greatly to campaign success. Since the Saving Bletchley Park campaign started, visitor numbers have increased, along with public awareness of the contribution of the site to world heritage and the history of the computer.
This public lecture is part of the Computer Science Athena Swan initiative to promote women in science.
Slides for "Turing 2.0(12)" a talk given by Dr Sue Black at the "Turing's Worlds" conference held to celebrate the 100th anniversary of Turing's birth on 23/6/12.
Dr Sue Black's presentation about the amazing tech heritage we have in the UK and why we need to get everyone in the UK more tech savvy to enable innovation and thus a better UK economy.
Slides from my talk about the campaign to save Bletchley Park. The work done at Bletchley Park shortened WW2 by two years possibly saving 11 million lives. It is also the birthplace of the computer.
From Bletchley Park to modern computing: the value of TwitterSue Black
Bletchley Park is the historic site of secret British codebreaking activities during World War II and the work carried out there by Alan Turing and others led to the birth of the modern computer. How did we get from Bletchley Park to modern software engineering? Dr Black will discuss how the use of social media can leverage capability in very diverse areas, from campaigning for a historical site to improving the quality of software.
Speaker: Dr Sue Black, Senior Research Associate, UCL Department of Computer Science
http://events.ucl.ac.uk/event/event:gkr-h9smshux-zhsk26/lunch-hour-lecture-from-bletchley-park-to-modern-computing-the-value-of-twitter
Progetto di educazione ambientale per la conoscenza del SIC ZPS "Raffo Rosso", finanziato dalla provincia regionale di Palermo, con la partecipazione dell'IC Riso di Isola delle Femmine, dell'IC di Torretta, Dell'RNO Isola delle Femmine (LIPU), dell'AGESCI Isola 1.
goes thru new healthcare law (PPACA) by section. all information is correct and factual to best of my research. gives great background education on economics of healthcare and covers how massachusetts and europe/canada are doing w/ "reforms". I am against this law, but most information is just plain fact.
Presentation given at Digital Humanities Research Colloquium, 10 October 2018.
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3. It looks as if Bletchley Park is the single greatest achievement of Britain during 1939-45, perhaps during the (20th) century as a whole George Steiner, American author expert on the impact of the Holocaust Ultra shortened the war "by not less than two years and probably by four years"; moreover, in the absence of Ultra, it is uncertain how the war would have ended Sir Harry Hinsley , official historian of British Intelligence in World War Two.
4. Bletchley Park is a national treasure: the home of the best-kept secret in history, where a group of peculiarly brilliant people made a huge contribution to winning the war Ben Macintyre , British author, historian and journalist The work here at Bletchley Park was no optional extra; no engaging very British sideshow; it was utterly fundamental to the survival of Britain and to the triumph of the West and I’m not actually sure that I can think of very many other places where I could say something as unequivocal as that. This is sacred ground. If this isn’t worth preserving, what is? Professor Richard Holmes , Military Historian
12. #bpark You might want to sign the Save Bletchley Park petition. Read @ Dr_Black 's reasons why on http://is.gd/ikEh - BP won us the war! 2:11 AM Feb 4th from web Photo by @Documentally
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15. Bletchley Park's codebreakers get glimpse of lottery funding The wartime site near Milton Keynes will receive £500,000 to help seek a £4.1m grant - but campaigners say more is needed Charles Arthur and agencies guardian.co.uk , Tuesday 29 September 2009 12.28 BST Supporters of Bletchley Park, home to crucial code-breaking work during the Second World War and birthplace of the computer, expressed delight today after outline proposals to overhaul the site were given approval by the Heritage Lottery Fund. Bletchley Park Trust has been awarded development funding to help prepare an application for a £4.1 million grant towards a £10 million restoration project including repairing key buildings, improving visitor facilities and expanding educational programmes. However Sue Black, a campaigner who has sought to gain heritage status – and funding – for the site, said that the award was "the end of the beginning for Save Bletchley Park, not the beginning of the end". On the social networking site Twitter, she pointed out that the site "needs £10 million plus £250k per annum operational funding for five years. HLF [Heritage Lottery Fund] funding gives £500k plus hopefully £4m to come..."
28. Thanks for listening, any questions? @Dr_Black www.sueblack.co.uk savingbletchleypark.org DrBlack.posterous.com Photo by @bpteditor
Editor's Notes
Intro to who I am www.sueblack.co.uk @Dr_Black etc I ’ ve spent my life as a geek, it wasn ’ t trendy in the 60s….but it ’ s getting there now Being a geek led me to Bletchley Park and to me starting a campaign which has taken over my life for the last three years.
Government Code and Cipher School opened at Bpark at the beginning of WW2. Major achievements include the invention of the Bombe and Colossus machines which were used to decipher Enigma and Lorenz encrypted messages. Prof Fred Piper going to talk about how that was done this afternoon.
Quotes about Bletchley Park by experts
Quotes about Bletchley Park by experts
Went to Bletchley Park again July 2008, did a full tour of the 26 acres, got upset at the state of the huts in which major codebreaking achievements happened. The work carried out at Bletchley Park shortened WW2 by two years potentially saving 22 million lives! But according to the Director Simon Greenish (June 2008) it may have to close due to lack of funds
Went to Bletchley Park and discovered that more than 5000 women worked there! Raised funds for the Women of Station X project.
Went to Bletchley Park again July 2008, did a full tour of the 26 acres, got upset at the state of the huts in which major codebreaking achievements happened. The work carried out at Bletchley Park shortened WW2 by two years potentially saving 22 million lives! But according to the Director Simon Greenish (June 2008) it may have to close due to lack of funds
Emailed all heads and profs of computing in the UK asking them to sign petition on Number 10 website. Was amazed at the support, many well known UK CS profs signed. Decided to write a letter to the Times saying that Bpark should be saved, 97 Heads and Profs signed.
Decided to do something about it. Contacted all Heads and Profs of CS in the UK, asked them to sign a petition to save Bletchley Park on the No. 10 website. Also asked to sign a letter to the Times asking to save Bletchley Park. More details on my blog: savingbletchleypark.org. Interviewed for Radio 4 Today and BBC News and live on News 24.
Set up a blog Saving Bletchley Park to help raise awareness of the plight of Bletchley Park and record campaign highlights
I realised the potential of Twitter for raising awareness and forming a community around Bletchley Park, so took social media gurus @Documentally @Sizemore and @Jemimah_Knight up to Bletchley Park to help me persuade them that using social media was a good idea.
Contacted Stephen Fry through Twitter, he tweeted about my blog and I got 8000 hits instead of the usual 50 Stephen came up to Bletchley Park for the day for lunch and a tour
I was the most Retweeted person that day, Stephen Fry was the second most Rted ;)
I went to the annual veterans reunion in September 2009. Still more than 1000 veterans around…fabulous people, an absolute joy to talk to and some great stories told.
More funding comes in for Bletchley Park, this time the Heritage Lottery Fund
Jason Gorman, a friend, organises an amazing standup comedy night in aid of Bletchley Park
Wrote a paper with Kelsey Griffin and Jonathan Bowen ‘ Can Twitter save Bletchley Park? ’ Wanted International museum community to be aware of Bletchley Park and for Bletchley to become part of that community.
When paper was accepted for the conference realised that we had no travel funds! Twitter friends suggested setting up a justgiving page…we received £2.5 in two weeks! I love Twitter and the fabulous people who have helped Bletchley Park.
Thses are many of the people who funded our trip via justgiving
Another great supporter of Bpark is Gareth Halfacree who decided to raise money to purchase the Turing papers for Bpark
The Turing papers came on sale in November 2010. I blogged about it http://drblack.posterous.com/turing-papers-saved-for-bletchley-park. Many thanks to Google for giving a fabulous $100k towards the purchase
This year the Turing papers were saved for Bletchley Park, they are now on display
Astrid Byro is another great supporter of Bpark, she invited Simon Greenish and I to speak at the ACCU conference 3 years ago, supports Bpark in a big way, this summer raising £ks by climbing to Everest Base Camp! Amazing stuff.
Robert Llewellyn also a great supporter recently driving me from my office to Bpark, we had a 20 min whistlestop tour of Bpark with simon Greenish and then drove back to London
Google funded fab garden party at Bpark to raise funds, raising over £10k! 400 people came despite the horrendous weather. Google ’ s Simon Meacham who engineered the $100k Google donation for the Turing papers flew in from India for the day to attend!