Bletchley Park - source related questions and answers

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                                                                                               Wahida Noor (11O)

                                                                            Bletchley Park C/Work (1 & 2)

               What can you learn from Source A about

                        the work of Bletchley Park?

Source A is a description of the work at Bletchley Park written by one of the intelligence staff in Hut 3.

From Source A, you can learn that the work at Bletchley Park was much ‘departmentalised’. This means people who worked there, worked in small groups rather than large groups. This is because those who do not work in Bletchley Park shouldn’t get to know about how the work of Bletchley Park operated because information could leak out. “You never discussed your work with anyone except your little group that worked with you.” This quote from source A shows that the small groups of employees at Bletchley Park had their own individual tasks, such as the Linguists who worked in Hut 3. Their job was to be able to identify a few letters then piece them together to extract a message. The staff of Hut 6 received the signals and messages, which it would then attempt to decode it. So each individual group didn’t mix with the other groups.

   Source A suggests that Bletchley Park was in some sort of hierarchy because all the evidence there is written in the source of how Bletchley Park managed.

Source C is a description of the work in Hut 6 written by one of the code breakers. Hut 6 was where the messages were decoded This source does give some evidence on how Bletchley Park worked but there are also limitations on some relevant information, such as there is no date of when source C was written. But it does give some information as to how Bletchley Park worked, like Bletchley Park was a place of secrecy and isolation.  

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The Evidence of source C does support the evidence of sources A and B. You can see this that all the sources have a description of how Bletchley Park operated. In source C it says, “We didn’t often know the results of our activities, which messages were important.”

Source A supports the quote in source C, you can see this in the lines “We were very, very departmentalised. You never discussed your work with anyone except your little group…”

Source B is a description of Bletchley Park while source C and source A is a description of the work at ...

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