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Religion and Ethics Discussion => Pagan Topic => Topic started by: Owlswing on April 19, 2016, 12:40:52 PM

Title: Doreen Valiente - Wartime work
Post by: Owlswing on April 19, 2016, 12:40:52 PM: Philip Heselton in his new book "Doreen Valiente - Witch" has some interesting additions to the previously knowledge that the public knew of Gardner's High Priestess and the Mother of Modern Witchcraft.

From a review of the book at

http://www.badwitch.co.uk/2016/02/review-doreen-valiente-witch-by-philip.html

And the biggest secret about Doreen Valiente in my opinion actually has little to do with witchcraft. It is the fact that during the Second World War she worked at the code-breaking centre Bletchley Park. She officially worked there as a translator. However, as this book shows, Doreen was a superb investigator and researcher and there are quite a few clues that she was also secretly employed by the government in this capacity during the war and after it.
Title: Re: Doreen Valiente - Wartime work
Post by: Hope on April 19, 2016, 10:37:43 PM: I'd heard of Doreen before, but only in the Bletchley Park context. Had no idea about her other persona.
Title: Re: Doreen Valiente - Wartime work
Post by: Owlswing on April 19, 2016, 10:59:10 PM: Quote from: Hope on April 19, 2016, 10:37:43 PM

I'd heard of Doreen before, but only in the Bletchley Park context. Had no idea about her other persona.

. . . and you heard of her Bletchley Park work from where please?
Title: Re: Doreen Valiente - Wartime work
Post by: Hope on April 20, 2016, 07:56:56 AM: Quote from: Owlswing on April 19, 2016, 10:59:10 PM
. . . and you heard of her Bletchley Park work from where please?
Either the TV programme that there was on Bletchley Park a few years back, or in an article on the work there. It would only have been a name in a list, rather than anything more detailed.
Title: Re: Doreen Valiente - Wartime work
Post by: Owlswing on April 20, 2016, 09:46:23 AM: Quote from: Hope on April 20, 2016, 07:56:56 AM
Either the TV programme that there was on Bletchley Park a few years back, or in an article on the work there. It would only have been a name in a list, rather than anything more detailed.

Thanks
Title: Re: Doreen Valiente - Wartime work
Post by: Bubbles on April 20, 2016, 02:13:38 PM: Quote from: Owlswing on April 20, 2016, 09:46:23 AM

Thanks

It's also listed on wiki, although I can't see her under her maiden name or the others on wiki.
( see link)
Apparently she married twice during Ww2

http://rollofhonour.bletchleypark.org.uk/search/?alpha=d

I don't think the roll call is complete though because you can add names.