Tag: Cold war Records and researchThe Cuban Missile Crisis: ‘A solemn moment for the fate of the entire world’Monday 31 October 2022The Cuban Missile Crisis of October 1962 is usually portrayed solely as a stand-off...Records and researchSpies, social climbers and suspicious stories from the files of MI5Tuesday 11 October 2022In 1962, civil servant John Vassall was sentenced to 18 years’ imprisonment for espionage....Records and researchAnimal Farm: The cartoon strip and the Cold WarMonday 17 August 2020George Orwell’s ‘Animal Farm’, first published on this day 75 years ago in 1945,...Records and researchOperation Sandstone: Surveying Britain’s Cold War beachesFriday 3 April 2020On 16 September 1952, S J Bassett of the Naval Intelligence Department filed a...Records and research‘The merry adventures of two Military Attachés’Friday 6 December 2019Serendipity often occurs in the course of archival research. While looking for something entirely...Records and researchFall of the WallWednesday 6 November 2019The Berlin Wall was breached 30 years ago, on 9 November 1989. In this...Records and researchSkynet: the real communication satellite systemThursday 24 October 2019The latest instalment of the ‘Terminator’ franchise has hit our cinema screens. A rather...Records and researchThe liberation struggle in the Congo and the strange death of Patrice LumumbaWednesday 23 October 2019Following the end of the Second World War, the African continent underwent rapid decolonization...Records and researchGeorge Orwell: Surveillance and the StateThursday 6 June 20198 June is the 70th anniversary (1949) of the publication of George Orwell’s famous...Records and researchDouble agents and double standardsFriday 17 May 2019Espionage is a complicated business. Not only do you, as a spy, have to...Records and researchLawrence and BellFriday 10 May 2019T.E. Lawrence is a legendary figure, known for spying and fighting in the Middle...Records and researchArchetype of a SpyFriday 3 May 2019Whenever I think of spies my first thought is always of a James Bond-type... 1 2 3 »