Tag: Cold war Behind the scenesTracing your house historyWednesday 1 May 2019The dwelling that you call home will always hold a unique treasure trove of...Archives and archivistsCreating our Cold War exhibitionFriday 12 April 2019When Steve Burgess and Juliette Johnstone from our events and exhibitions team first approached...Records and research‘The White Crow’: Rudolf Nureyev’s defection to the WestFriday 22 March 2019This month sees the release of Ralph Fiennes’ film ‘The White Crow’, written by...Records and researchA Cold War visitor in London: Marshal Tito of YugoslaviaThursday 15 March 2018Sixty-five years ago, on the afternoon of 16 March 1953, Britain welcomed an unlikely visitor...Records and researchCricket, tanks and panda-monium: files released from 1992Friday 29 December 2017In 2013 the government began its move towards releasing records when they are 20...Records and researchSex, Spies and another Scandal: the other Profumo affairTuesday 28 November 2017At the height of the Profumo affair, the greatest British political scandal of the...Records and researchPaddy Costello: Soviet spy or political intellectual?Tuesday 11 April 2017Costello was an academic, soldier and diplomat, who remains as controversial now as he...Records and researchA British ‘spy school’ in the Middle East?Friday 3 March 2017The Middle East Centre for Arab Studies was nicknamed ‘the British spy school’ in...Records and researchBritish diplomats on Castro, 1959-1963: in the global spotlightMonday 23 January 2017From 1959, scrutiny of Castro intensified. Reports sent back to the Foreign Office included...Records and researchI want to believe: UFOs in the archiveFriday 22 January 2016Inspired by The X-Files we take a look at some of our own UFO...Records and researchBurgess and Maclean: RevelationsFriday 23 October 2015Burgess and Maclean. The names have been etched into postwar Britain history, synonymous with...Archives and archivists‘The grandmother of us all’: the spy who recruited Philby?Friday 21 August 2015The latest batch of MI5 files have been released at The National Archives this... « 1 2 3 »