Cairn British History Quest

Every day, a real place from British history is hidden on the map. Find it.

Quest No. 10 is live

Year1939–1945

The blackout curtains stay closed all day, even when the room is hot with lamps and bodies. I carry another bundle of typed groups across the lawn, told not to read them and, above all, not to ask what the machines are doing with them.

Where are the codebreakers at work?

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Cairn — British History Quest

Cairn — British History Quest

Every day we hide a real place from British history somewhere on the map. Read the story, work out where it happened, drop a pin. Four confirms, and the story moves on whatever you guess.

  1. 1 Read the story.
  2. 2 Work out where it happened.
  3. 3 Drop a pin on the map.

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Quest No. 16

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