LGBT+ icon and mathematician Alan Turing OBE, who helped decipher codes from the Nazis during the Second World War at Bletchley Park, is being celebrated by The National Lottery as part of LGBT+ History month.
Turing worked at Bletchley Park from 1939 to 1942 as a cryptanalyst, helping to develop a method for deciphering the Enigma cipher from the Nazis and allowing Bletchley Park to supply Allies with large quantities of military intelligence.
By early 1942, the cryptanalysts at Bletchley Park were deciphering over 39,000 intercepted Enigma messages each month - a figure that rose subsequently to more than 84,000 per month.
