Tag: Espionage Records and researchTracing the political history of Cairo’s coffeehousesThursday 23 March 2017Tracing the history of Cairo’s coffeehouses can offer invaluable insights into Egypt’s social, cultural,...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 researchClare Hollingworth: ‘A clever English journalist’Wednesday 15 February 2017War correspondent Clare Hollingworth filed the scoop of the century: the beginning of the...Records and researchSpies in the Baltic: the unknown scandalMonday 17 October 2016A scandal involving a general, a leading naval officer and a communist actress rocked...Records and researchGarbo: the story behind Britain’s greatest Double Cross agentWednesday 28 September 2016Explore the story of spy Juan Pujol Garcia, codenamed Garbo, one of Britain’s most...Records and researchShot at the TowerMonday 15 August 201675 years ago Josef Jakobs was shot by firing squad - the last person...Records and researchLászló von Almásy: the real ‘English patient’Friday 22 July 2016Some of the true stories behind 'The English Patient' are much more entertaining than...Records and researchDodgy dealings with the ‘merchant of death’Monday 21 December 2015An international arms dealer known by the universal nickname of Zedzed. Corrupt payments seeking...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