Manchester’s Science and Industry museum has added some new items to its Alan Turing collection, focusing on the pardoning of iconic scientist.
Among them are some of the placards that were carried by protesters at the Gay Pride parade in 2012 calling for his pardon, along with a framed Private Members’ bill, and badges and beer mats which were all given out to raise awareness of the cause.
Turing, who was the Deputy Director of Manchester University’s Computing Machine Laboratory, and whose work at Bletchley Park during World War II broke the German Enigma code and helped bring an end to the war, was convicted for gross indecency in 1952.
