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Speaker Series: “Bletchley Park; the Home of WW II’s Codebreakers,” by Parks Smith, Parkway UCC, Town & Country
November 2, 2025 @ 11:15 am - 12:30 pm
Bletchley Park, in England, was the top-secret home of the World War II “Codebreakers.” a term for the over 9,000 men and women who intercepted and cracked German war messages. Winston Churchill referred to the Bletchley staff as “the geese who laid the golden eggs and never cackled”
Our speaker, an historian, will explore Bletchley Park’s history from 1939 to 1946, sharing stories of those who worked there and detailing how German messages were captured and decoded during the Battle of the Atlantic. This included breaking the Enigma and Lorenz codes and developing the Colossus computer. |
| This is one of Parkway’s acclaimed Speakers Series program and all are welcome from the Missouri Mid-South Conference community. |
| This program is brought to our friends in the Missouri Mid-South Conference for free by Parkway UCC. We customarily have two programs each month on Sundays following worship. Our topics include a wide array of subjects, some religious, most not as much. We have had beekeepers. birders, and naturalists, judges, public servants, an Amazon supervisor, a trans man, journalists, foreign students, doctors, AI experts, biblical scholars, historians, paroled convicts, federal prosecutors, public defenders, authors, poets, sociologists, genealogy consultants, and scientists. Information about upcoming programs may be accessed via our website at www.parkwayucc.org. |
The speaker will appear live in Parkway’s Heritage Room. |
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