MK Lit Fest: 50 Codes that Changed the World – SInclair McKay
Start Date: 14/04/2023
End Date: 14/04/2023
Start Time: 6:00 pm
End Time: 7:00 pm
Cost of Entry: £8
Waterstones Unit 72, Midsummer Place, Milton Keynes, MK9 3GA, GB
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From the spectacular achievements of Bletchley Park to a thousand years of codebreaking history – through the Minoans, the Kama Sutra and the Romans to the Tudor court and the 16th century Vatican – bestselling author Sinclair McKay brings us 50 Codes that Changed the World.
There have been secret codes since before the Old Testament, and there were secret codes in the Old Testament too. Almost as soon as writing was invented, so too were the devious means to hide messages and keep them under the wraps of secrecy. From antique manuscripts whose codes might hold prophecies of doom to the modern realm of quantum mechanics, Sinclair will reveal how a few concealed words could help to win wars, spark revolutions and even change the faces of great nations.
50 Codes that Changed the World is the complete guide to the hidden world of codebreaking, with opportunities for you to see if you could have cracked some of the trickiest puzzles and lip-chewing codes ever created.