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Public Lecture Series: Secret Days: Codebreaking in Bletchley Park
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9 February 2012
5:30 p.m.
Convocation Room, 2/F Main Building, The University of Hong Kong
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In his early twenties, the young historian Asa Briggs was recruited to join the team of British codebreakers, who worked secretly at Bletchley Park, decrypting messages sent by the German High Command using the Enigma code machines. For almost thirty years after World War II ended, the existence of this venture remained a closely guarded secret. Asa Briggs never told his parents about his involvement in this work, and his wife only learned of it in the 1970s. More than six decades later, Lord Briggs has finally written Secret Days, a memoir of his time at Bletchley Park.
Lord Briggs, one of Britain’s most distinguished historians, has written many books, among them Victorian Cities, Victorian People, and Victorian Things. He was Vice Chancellor of Sussex University, Chancellor of the Open University, and Provost of Worcester College, Oxford. He has a long association with China and Hong Kong, especially The University of Hong Kong, dating back to the 1950s, and served on the then University and Polytechnic Grants Committee.
To celebrate The University of Hong Kong’s centennial and his own ninetieth birthday, Lord Briggs is returning to Hong Kong. This lecture has been generously supported by a Postgraduate Students Conference / Seminar Grant of the Research Grants Council, Hong Kong.
Seating is limited, so pre-registration is required, at: http://hkuems1.hku.hk/hkuems/ec_regform.aspx?guest=Y&ueid=18299
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