Alan Turing: Stolen items returned to UK school from US after 40 years

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• Im14abeer@midwest.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Ahem, see how it’s done Britain?

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  • tony@lemmy.hoyle.me.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Nah rookie mistake. She tried to return them.

    When we steal stuff we make entire museums around the items that declare ‘this is our shit now’…

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    • Rakust@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      There's no building on earth that creates more seething than the british museum. it should be an exhibit all it's own.

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  • ceuk@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    There are definitely countries (like France and Germany) that do reparation better (blame the museum act). but it’s not like we have never returned anything ever 😂

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• Silinde@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  So a random woman stole the items, changed her name to Turing a few years later, then 35 years later tries to loan the stolen items to a university pretending to be a relative? What an absolute nutcase!!

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• autotldr@lemmings.world [bot] ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  This is the best summary I could come up with:

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  Items belonging to World War Two Bletchley Park codebreaker Alan Turing, that were stolen from the UK almost 40 years ago, have been returned from the US.

  The mathematician’s miniature OBE medal is among 17 items that were taken from Sherborne School in Dorset by Julia Turing, who is no relation, in 1984.

  “His crucial work as a cryptanalyst at Bletchley Park and his enormous contribution to the development of computing and artificial intelligence were not merely of vital practical significance at the time but continue to underpin many of today’s most important intellectual and technological advances,” he said.

  “I am most grateful to all those, in the US and closer to home, who have worked so hard to ensure the safe return of these precious artefacts.”

  As well as attending Sherborne School, he gained a mathematics degree at King’s College, Cambridge, and a PhD at Princeton University in New Jersey.

  Apart from Sherborne School, the only other places believed to hold more of his personal belongings are Bletchley Park and Cambridge University’s King’s College.

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