"Temporary clerk, Foreign Office." If this was written on your Newnham College record, it may well have meant you had been secretly recruited to Bletchley Park.
Violet Cane was one of them, a mathematician with a particular flair for statistics. She was one of the first students to complete the Cambridge Postgraduate Diploma in Mathematical Statistics, going on to work for the Board of Trade and as an Assistant Lecturer at the University of Aberdeen.
Once at Bletchley Park, she was assigned to Naval Section I in Block B, where she worked first on decrypting Italian messages and then on Japanese.
➡️ Discover more incredible stories in our temporary exhibition, The Women of Newnham College and Bletchley Park, which is currently on display in Hut 12 until 31 March: https://t.co/XhqTZfHSiQ
The Yin to John Lennon’s Yang
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Half a century after co-writing “Imagine” with her Beatle husband, Yoko Ono is finally getting the recognition she deserves.
by David Sheff, @AirMailWeekly
Attention Los Angeles! I’m doing a live appearance on July 27th following a special 50th Anniversary screening of BLAZING SADDLES on the big screen at The Peacock Theater. Tickets go on sale tomorrow! https://t.co/XgUXrwO0Z6
The Ministry of Silly Walks would like to remind you that today is #InternationalSillyWalksDay. Public displays of Silly Walking are strongly encouraged. Post your #SillyWalks for grant consideration and beware of any walks that are not particularly silly. 🎩 🧐