Bletchley Park
After Alan Turing designed a machine to break the Enigma code, the staff at Bletchley Park had around three thousand intercepted German messages a day to deal with. To catalog and organize them in order to extract useful intelligence, they recruited librarians (generally female, as was most of the Bletchley Park staff) from all over the country. That’s right, bitches, WWII was won by a gay guy and a bunch of librarians. OK, there were other people involved, but historians…