ISBN 978-0704372573."It was astonishing what young women could be trained to do." There is a note of surprise in the post-war review of the work that went on at Bletchley Park – for decades a site shrouded in secrecy but now known the world over as the place where the Nazis' "unbreakable" Enigma code was cracked. The Bletchley Girls: War, secrecy, love and loss: the women of Bletchley Park tell their story. The Century Girls: The Final Word from the Women Who've Lived the Past Hundred Years of British History. Army Girls: The secrets and stories of military service from the final few women who fought in World War II. Several further history books written by her have been published, most recently Army Girls. In 2007 Dunlop filmed Paranormal Egypt, an eight-part series with Derek Acorah on location in Egypt.ĭunlop's first book, To Romania with Love, a memoir set in post-revolution Romania about how she met her future husband, was published in May 2012. She was named Regional Television Personality in the Royal Television Society's West of England Awards in 2005 for her work on the regional magazine show Inside Out West. Career Īfter graduating, Dunlop chased a media career, landing work at London radio station LBC and BBC London 94.9. She also studied at Sheffield Hallam University and was awarded an MA in Imperialism and Culture and a PhD in Romanian-British history and royal imaging. The granddaughter of Sir Derrick Dunlop, she lives in south London.ĭunlop attended Strathallan public school in Perthshire after Pitlochry High School, Scotland and read history at St Hilda's College, Oxford University, where she won the 1995 Gertrude Easton Prize for History. She has written several oral history books and presented history programmes for the BBC, Discovery Channel Europe, Channel 4, UKTV History and the History Channel (US). Tessa Dunlop is a historian, writer and broadcaster.
Sheffield Hallam University ( MA), ( PhD)
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