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Alan Turing depicted on the new note, one of the great minds who was based at Bletchley Park that shortened WWII by a couple of years... and then got treated terribly by the UK afterwards
Its a bit odd, that I've never actually owned a £50 note and the only time that I have seen one is on the telly when they bust a drug dealer.
The work of Alan Turing, who was educated in Sherborne, Dorset, helped accelerate Allied efforts to read German Naval messages enciphered with the Enigma machine.
Less celebrated is the pivotal role he played in the development of early computers, first at the National Physical Laboratory and later at the University of Manchester.
In 2013, he was given a posthumous royal pardon for his 1952 conviction for gross indecency following which he was chemically castrated. He had been arrested after having an affair with a 19-year-old Manchester man.
The Bank said his legacy continued to have an impact on science and society today.
The work of Alan Turing, who was educated in Sherborne, Dorset, helped accelerate Allied efforts to read German Naval messages enciphered with the Enigma machine.
Less celebrated is the pivotal role he played in the development of early computers, first at the National Physical Laboratory and later at the University of Manchester.
In 2013, he was given a posthumous royal pardon for his 1952 conviction for gross indecency following which he was chemically castrated. He had been arrested after having an affair with a 19-year-old Manchester man.
The Bank said his legacy continued to have an impact on science and society today.
To the eyes of the modern world Turing is a great briton, up there with the finest minds.
Just think, if his sexuality had been widely known back then he would probably never have gone to Bletchley Park and things may have gone very differently.
To the eyes of the modern world Turing is a great briton, up there with the finest minds.
Just think, if his sexuality had been widely known back then he would probably never have gone to Bletchley Park and things may have gone very differently.
Doesn't that show the dangers of bigotry?
Superbly put Cat. Britain at that time was very sexually repressed and many countries still are.
I recall a conversation with my parents.
It was 1963 and it was Profumo time. I asked my mum what a "prostitute" was. I might as well as shat on the Axminster rug. It was reported to my father later in the evening.#
To the eyes of the modern world Turing is a great briton, up there with the finest minds.
Just think, if his sexuality had been widely known back then he would probably never have gone to Bletchley Park and things may have gone very differently.
Doesn't that show the dangers of bigotry?
Exactly.
Well said.
I wonder what Turing would have thought of the language used by Johnson to describe homosexuality. Shameful.
I don't know how things have turned out over the years for gay people and am not about to read up on it but on hearing about his case being overturned at the time I thought it wrong as other cases at the time weren't overturned (don't know about now), Turing was guilty as charged as the law stood and not a victim of a miscarriage of justice, Turing seemed to be treated favourably compared to others by having his conviction quashed, which is not right in my book. I said this on a Welsh rugby site at the time and posters agreed, can't have one rule for one and one rule for others, even if somebody does great things a convicted felon is a convicted felon.
Continually being banned by Planet Swans for Porthcawl and then being reinstated.
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