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Inside Alan Turing’s unpublished WWII code-breaking notebooks

Rare Alan Turing notebook
  • Notebooks containing Alan Turing's unpublished WWII code-breaking work have been saved for the UK.
  • A fundraising campaign led by Friends of the Nations' Libraries secured the funds to purchase the notebooks, preventing their sale to an international bidder.
  • The notebooks detail Turing's "Delilah project," focusing on building a portable voice encoder.
  • A substantial donation from XTX Markets, along with contributions from other organisations and individuals, enabled King's College, Cambridge, to acquire the archive.
  • The notebooks will be added to the existing Turing collection at King's College and made available online for research and study.
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