Ada Lovelace in Hinckley

05/11/2026

Ada passed away on November 27th 1852, 174 yrs ago.

Ada was laid to rest next to her Father, Lord Byron at her request, who she never knew, in the Byron family vault, in Hucknall Par. Church. Her Mother’s family, the Noels, date from the 16th C. in K.Mallory. A Grade II listed memorial to Ada, was built by her Mother in 1853. She did not attend her funeral for reasons unknown.
Ada was known as the daughter of Lord Byron until the 1940s, when Alan Turing researching her work, discovered Ada had anticipated the theoretical conception of a general purpose computer on which he was working. The concept has long been debated since,
Ada said:-
“The Analytical Engine has no pretensions to originate anything. It can do whatever we know how to order it to perform".

30/10/2026

Mrs Alice Oakes, Head of Science and Lovelace House, Hastings High School, with the winner of her competition, also called Alice, to create a dress in the style befitting Ada’s time! With her prize, a model of the statue outside NWSL College, donated by Hinckley Museum.

28/10/2026

Girls are let down over numeracy by ‘gender stereotypes’ in education system, says study

25/10/2026

Alan Turing, the first person to review Ada’s work when forming the concept of an electronic computer to crack the enigma code in the 30s.

Sherborne school is sharing the father of modern computing's story with future generations.

15/10/2026

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13/10/2026

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🧮 Happy Ada Lovelace Day 🧮

Today is all about celebrating the achievements of women in Science, Technology, Engineering and Maths (STEM).

Ada Lovelace is considered the world’s first computer programmer. She learned science and mathematics at Kirkby Hall in Kirkby Mallory and loved to visit nearby Hinckley. She became friends and working partners with mathematician Charles Babbage. Babbage is credited with having invented the first mechanical computer, and his continued work in the field with Lovelace led them to proposing its successor - the Analytical Machine.

Lovelace decided to look further into how to programme it to perform tasks and created the most elaborate and complete programme plans created to that point, leading to her being credited as “the world’s first computer programmer.”

A bronze statue of Ada Lovelace has been positioned outside the North Warwickshire and South Leicestershire College Hinckley Campus to inspire girls and young women to study science, technology, engineering and mathematics.

It was made possible thanks to volunteers of the Ada Lovelace in Hinckley Community Interest Company with the support of various local residents and interest groups, North Warwickshire and South Leicestershire College and Hinckley & Bosworth Borough Council.

13/10/2026

Today is Ada Lovelace Day! (2nd Tuesday in October).

Ada, figurehead for Women in STEM, a movement to encourage women to consider science, technology engineering and maths as career choices!
Ada foresaw computerisation and wrote the first computer programme mid 19th century, after living most of her childhood at Kirkby Mallory.

12/10/2026

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Welcome to Ada Lovelace Day 2026!

Out in the middle of the Pacific Ocean on Kiritimati Island it has just turned midnight and Ada Lovelace Day has begun! The day of 13 October continues around the globe for a whole 50 hours, until it ends at midnight on Baker Island and Howland Island, so you have plenty of time to celebrate with us!

Don’t forget, our hashtag this year is on Bluesky, LinkedIn and here on Facebook so do join in online! Post photos from your events, talk about the women in STEM you admire, and share your links to women’s biographies, books, podcasts or Wikipedia pages!

Ada Lovelace Day around the world

We have already had some fabulous events happening around the world this year, with more scheduled. Take a look at the list below, or check our website to catch any last minute additions. You can find all our events listed here: https://findingada.com/worldwide-events/

• Mexico, Zacatecas: Día de Ada Lovelace en la UAZ-2026, A set of short conferences in different classrooms, speaking about the achievements of women in STEM. 13 Oct, 7:30 am - 5:00 pm, free.

• UK, Oxford: Women in Computing celebrates women across IT and computer science. This fifth annual event from BCS Oxfordshire features a keynote from Maryam Sultana, a talk by Salma Salmon, and more. 13 Oct, 8am - 5pm, free.

• Online: The Origins of Algorithmic Thought and Poetical Science by Alvaro Moure Clouzet will be released in its print version as well by Templo Oceánico, in English, Portuguese, and Spanish. 13 Oct.

• UK, Egham: Debugging the system: Ada Lovelace, computing, and gender equity. Suw Charman-Anderson will talk about Lovelace’s vision, celebrating women in STEM and gender equity at work. 14 Oct, 6-8pm, free.

• UK, Peterborough: Peterborough STEM Festival – 10 Year Anniversary! Fun activities for 5-17 year olds, incl. coding workshops, interactive science experiments, engineering and technology demos, talks and presentations. 17 Oct, 11am - 4pm, free.

• UK, London: Women in STEM and gender equity in the workplace. Suw Charman-Anderson will address the SCTE’s Quantum Computing event and introduce presentations by women in the broadband industry. 22 Oct, 9am-6pm, £10.

Thanks to everyone running an event this year, I hope it goes well! Don’t forget to let us know how your event went and to share your photos with us – you can post them to us on Bluesky, Facebook or LinkedIn, and use the hashtag .

Finally, thanks to everyone who has already supported my crowdfunder and the finishing of my report on gender equity in the workplace. If you’d like to celebrate ALD with a donation, that would be wonderful!

https://www.gofundme.com/f/help-me-finish-my-workplace-gender-equity-report

I’d also be grateful for a share of this post, too!

So, welcome again to Ada Lovelace Day 2026. Don’t forget to get your colleagues, friends and family involved too, and let’s celebrate the day in style!

05/10/2026

Ada Lovelace Day Tuesday 13th October!! Our Ada will be making everyone aware from Saturday !

Head of Lovelace House and Science at Hastings High School is running a competition, entries to be handed into the museum on Saturday between 10am - 3.30pm. There is a prize for the winner!
We will be available to talk about everything Ada Lovelace on Saturday in the museum!

03/10/2026

The Great Exhibition of 1851 from May 1st to 11th October, included British global dominance of the Industrial Revolution. Ada visited with Charles Babbage, date unknown. Ada, ill with uterine cancer, was urged by Babbage to wear warm clothing. His Analytical Engine, a mechanical computer, was not on show, unable to raise funds to build it. Ada died November 1852.