Move over, Alan Turing: meet the working-class hero of Bletchley Park you didn’t see in the movies
- Posted on October 12, 2025
- By The Guardian
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Move over, Alan Turing: meet the working-class hero of Bletchley Park you didn’t see in the movies
The Oxbridge-educated boffin is feted as the codebreaking genius who helped Britain win the war. But should a little-known Post Office engineer named Tommy Flowers be seen as the real father of computing?
