Rare Alan Turing wartime papers saved for the nation for nearly £400,000 will join collection at King’s College, Cambridge

Rare Alan Turing wartime papers saved for the nation for nearly £400,000 will join collection at King’s College, Cambridge

An export bar was placed on the documents relating to the Delilah project to prevent them being taken abroad.

Secret notebooks written by Alan Turing during WWII saved for the nation

The British mathematician is credited with breaking the Nazis’ Enigma code

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BBC: Rare Turing papers worth £397k saved from export. “A collection of rare documents by World War Two codebreaker Alan Turing have been saved for the nation. Last year, a temporary export bar was placed on the wartime project writings to prevent them being taken abroad. A successful campaign was launched to keep the papers on home soil, which were described by the government as some of Turing’s most ‘inventive, secret, and overlooked work’.”Th…

Rare writings by codebreaker Alan Turing will remain in the UK after a request to take them abroad was denied.

The documents relate to the Delilah project during WWII, which focused on developing an encryption system for military operations. Turing worked at the National Physical Laboratory in Teddington, where he continued his groundbreaking research after the war. The documents were saved by UK-based buyers and will go on display at King's College.