Never Stand Under An Atomic Scientist (Barbenheimer Remix)

March 18, 2019 Jonathan Swinton

They might drop a suitcase on your head. If they’re J Robert Oppenheimer.

Me and my saint's spoons

March 11, 2019 Jonathan Swinton

A mini-meditation on the attraction — and grotesquery — of Turing artefacts.

Women at the console

March 4, 2019 Jonathan Swinton

Bertha Swirles, Phyllis Lockett, Cicely Popplewell, Audrey Bates, and Mary Lee Woods. Did Manchester University computing did first create and then lose female expertise?

Northern Adventure

March 4, 2019 Jonathan Swinton

Paul Nash’s brand of southern English surrealism has had a resurgence in the last few years. But he was never neglected, and a 1948 Nash exhibition in Manchester was one of the visual highlights of the city, according to one of Turing’s closest friends.