Alan Turing's Manchester

Alan Turing is a patron saint of Manchester, remembered as the Mancunian who won the war, invented the computer, and was all but put to death for being gay. Each myth is related to a historical story. This is not a book about the first of those stories, of Turing at Bletchley Park. But it is about the second two, which each unfolded here in Manchester, of Turing's involvement in the world's first computer and of his refusal to be cowed about his sexuality. Manchester can be proud of Turing, but can we be proud of the city he encountered?

ISBN:	9780750999946
Publisher:	The History Press
Imprint:	The History Press
Published date:	26 May 2022
DEWEY:	942.73085
DEWEY edition:	23
Language:	English
Number of pages:	210
Weight:	628g
Height:	257mm
Width:	179mm
Spine width:	23mm

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