Move over, Alan Turing: meet the working-class hero of Bletchley Park you didn’t see in the movies

The article discusses the role of Tommy Flowers, a Post Office engineer, in the development of the world's first digital electronic computer during World War II, rather than the more commonly known story of Alan Turing's involvement in codebreaking at Bletchley Park. The article highlights that while Turing is celebrated as the "father of computing" for his work on cracking the Enigma code, Flowers was the actual inventor of the Colossus, the first digital electronic computer, which was used to revolutionize codebreaking during the war. Flowers, a working-class engineer, was prevented from acknowledging his achievement for decades due to the Official Secrets Act. The article argues that Flowers should be seen as the real "father of computing" rather than Turing, and that he is finally receiving some of the recognition he deserves, with the establishment of the Tommy Flowers Foundation and a mural in his honor at the National Museum of Computing.