Code Breakers

Think you're clever? Maybe you are: but are you a GENIUS? Irving Finkel doubts it. There is only one man this curator gives that label to and it is Edward Hincks... upstaged by the evil Rawlinson and with a blue plaque only dogs can see, it seems the only person left to champion him is a swearing beardy man with a passion for Cuneiform.

 
 
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Do you know the difference between a cryptogamist and a cryptogramist? No? Well it turns out that, during the Second World War, someone in the Ministry of Defence didn’t either.

 
 

For any questions suggestions and feedback get in touch via iszi.com

Geoffrey Tandy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geoffrey_Tandy

Florence Schechter is Scicomm-er and comedian and is making a vagina museum. Really. https://www.floschechter.com/

Iszi Lawrence is a comedian and podcaster and contributor to BBC's Making History and presenter of The British Museum Membercast.www.iszi.com @iszi_lawrence.


 

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