10/06/2026
📣🕵️♂️ This summer, don't miss the Polish Codebreaking Festival at Bletchley Park - 25-26th July and rediscover a British-Polish WWII story!
🗣 Featuring talks with leading experts and historians, interactive workshops, demonstrations, music + more, all within a festival atmosphere
❗ All events in English! ❗
✨ Programme Highlights:
📍Discover the connection between Bletchley Park and Polish codebreaking, with the Bletchley Park Historians.
📍Learn about the remarkable life of Polish-born pioneering female special agent Krystyna Skarbek as well as Elżbieta Zawacka, Polish-born Countess and the only woman to parachute from Britain to German-occupied Poland during World War Two from author and historian Clare Mulley
📍 A talk on Polish Codebreaking and Bletchley Park with Dr Marek Grajek, Sir Dermot Turing and Dr David Kenyon.
📍See a demonstration of the cylometer machine and discover the workings of the first electromechanical device created by Marian Rejewski to help break German Enigma keys. Hosted by Jerry McCarthy (The National Museum of Computing).
📍 See a demonstration of the Enigma machine by experts from the Enigma Cipher Centre, Poznań
📍 Music performances, food stalls and creative family workshops
ℹ Full programme:
https://www.bletchleypark.org.uk/event/polish-festival/
Organised by Bletchley Park in partnership with the Polish Cultural Institute in London, the Embassy of the Republic of Poland in London and the Enigma Cipher Centre in Poznan Centrum Szyfrów ENIGMA