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  2. The Bletchley Circle - Wikipedia

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    Susan Gray, Millie, Lucy, and Jean worked together at Bletchley Park to decipher German military codes for the British military, during World War II.After a brief introduction of the four women at Bletchley during the war, the series begins in 1952, seven years after the war's end, when Susan, Millie, Lucy, and Jean have returned to their ordinary lives.

  3. Wartime Farm - Wikipedia

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    Wartime Farm is a British historical documentary TV series in eight parts in which the running of a farm during the Second World War is reenacted, first broadcast on BBC Two on 6 September 2012. The series, the fourth in the historic farm series, following the original, Tales from the Green Valley, was made for the BBC by independent production ...

  4. Women in Bletchley Park - Wikipedia

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    About 7,500 women worked in Bletchley Park, the central site for British cryptanalysts during World War II.Women constituted roughly 75% of the workforce there. [1] While women were overwhelmingly under-represented in high-level work such as cryptanalysis, they were employed in large numbers in other important areas, including as operators of cryptographic and communications machinery ...

  5. Women in World War II - Wikipedia

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    Women in World War II. In many nations women were encouraged to join female branches of the armed forces or participate in industrial or farm work. Women took on many different roles during World War II, including as combatants and workers on the home front. [1] The war involved global conflict on an unprecedented scale; the absolute urgency of ...

  6. Auxiliary Territorial Service - Wikipedia

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    The Auxiliary Territorial Service (ATS; often pronounced as an acronym) was the women's branch of the British Army during the Second World War. It was formed on 9 September 1938, initially as a women's voluntary service, and existed until 1 February 1949, when it was merged into the Women's Royal Army Corps. The ATS had its roots in the Women's ...

  7. Noor Inayat Khan - Wikipedia

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    Noor-un-Nisa Inayat Khan, GC(1 January 1914 – 13 September 1944), also known as Nora Inayat-Khanand Nora Baker, was a British resistance agent in France in the Second World Warwho served in the Special Operations Executive(SOE). The purpose of SOE was to conduct espionage, sabotage, and reconnaissance in countries occupied by the Axis powers ...

  8. Marguerite Patten - Wikipedia

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    Hilda Elsie Marguerite Patten, CBE (née Brown; 4 November 1915 – 4 June 2015), was a British home economist, food writer and broadcaster.She was one of the earliest celebrity chefs (a term that she disliked at first) who became known during World War II thanks to her programme on BBC Radio, where she shared recipes that could work within the limits imposed by war rationing.

  9. Iris Carpenter - Wikipedia

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    Iris Carpenter. Iris Nell Carpenter Akers (September 21, c. 1904 – October 7, 1997) was a British journalist, author and war correspondent known for her frontline publications during World War II as a female journalist. [1] Carpenter started her writing career in 1924 but resigned from her position to focus on raising her two children.

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