A good history of early British computing is Programmed Inequality. Gets at why that country squandered its WW2-era computing lead (spoiler alert: sexism was part of it). https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/programmed-inequality
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Programmed Inequality: How Britain Discarded Women Technologists and Lost Its Edge in Computing
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