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  1. History of rioting in Britain - Late Night Live - 16 August 2011

    Donald Thomas talks about criminality in Britain, boing back to the eighteenth century and puts the recent London riots into a historical context.

    Guests:
    Donald Thomas, Associate Research Professor in the School of English, Communication and Philosophy at Cardiff University.

    Publications:
    Title: Villain’s Paradise: A History of Britain’s Underworld
    Author: Donald Thomas
    Publisher: Pegasus Books (2006)

    Title: Sherlock Holmes and the Ghosts of Bly
    Author: Donald Thomas
    Publisher: Pegasus (2010)

    http://www.abc.net.au/rn/latenightlive/stories/2011/3294070.htm

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  2. American Bombe: How the U.S. Shattered the Enigma Code

    Many people know the story of Alan Turing and his work at Bletchley Park in designing the British bombes, the machines used to crack the German Enigma codes. What most people don’t know is what happened afterward. When the German military added a fourth rotor to the Enigma, a new type of machine was needed in order to crack the codes and keep Allied intelligence out of darkness. These American bombes were the first multifunction computers ever built, and are an important part of the history of modern computing. It’s the incredible, gripping story of an enterprise that rivaled the Manhattan Project in secrecy and complexity, and ultimately led to the first modern digital computer.

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