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Here’s more bad news from historic computing site Bletchley Park, where a new, slick museum is being put together with enormous corporate and state funding. Last month, it was the fact that McAfee had apparently banned any mention of Edward Snowden in a cybersecurity exhibit.
Now there’s this heartrending BBC report on how volunteers who’ve given decades of service to Bletchley have been summarily dismissed because they don’t fit in with the new plan. The museum of Churchill memoribilia that shared the Bletchley site has been evicted.
For people like me who’ve donated over the years, fundraised for it, and joined the Friends of Bletchley, this is really distressing news. I’ve always dreamt of Bletchley getting enough funding to do the site and its collection justice, but if it comes at the expense of decency and integrity, they may as well have left it as Churchill did — abandoned and forgotten.
Update: Bletchley Trust has clarified to me that while this volunteer was dismissed from guiding tours because he refused to conduct the tour to the new spec, he still volunteers with the Trust in its educational department.
BBC News Bletchley Park s bitter dispute over its future
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