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Chargement... Saving Bletchley Parkpar Sue Black
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Imagine a Britain where the most important sites of historical significance are replaced with housing estates and supermarkets... Imagine a Britain without Bletchley Park, where Alan Turing and a team of code breakers changed the course of World War II and where thousands of women inspired future generations with their work in the fields of computing and technology... Now imagine a group of extraordinary people, who - seventy years after the birth of the modern computer at Bletchley Park - used technology to spark a social media campaign that helped secure its future and transform it into the world-class heritage and education centre it deserves to be. This is a story about saving Bletchley Park. But it is also the story of the hundreds of people who dedicated twenty years of hard work and determination to the campaign that saved it. It is a testament to the remarkable and mysterious work during World War II that made it a place worth saving. It is a book about campaigners, veterans, enthusiasts, computer geeks, technology, Twitter, trees and Stephen Fry stuck in a lift. And finally, it is a story about preserving the past for the generations of tomorrow. Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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I read this on an ereader and it directly impacted my enjoyment. The formatting in the book pulls out into infoboxes the (many, many, many) tweets she quotes in the main text, plus the letters sent/received. In hard copy these are easy to gloss past, because you have already read the gist in the main text. In a reader, you have to reread them, and it gets very tiring very quickly.
In reading it, it felt as though these had been discrete blog entries culled and aggregated, with the stories stuck between.
I was using this book as my "commute read" (hence the ereader), but had to give up half-way through and just push through my hard copy (I was one of the financial "Supporters" through Unbound!) due to the tedium.
The writing is very simple, unadorned, and many times repetitive. Some of the tips re how Twitter helped generate awareness, interest, and momentum for the Save BP campaign were interesting, but then became repetitive. Did I already say that? That it was repetitive?
What really kept me going was the stories of the women (and men) of BP. Of the over 10,000 stationed at Bletchley Park more than half were women. These are the stories I very much want to hear more about, so I will seek out the relevant books in the comprehensive bibliography. (