Tag: New releases Records and researchStories from home and abroad in the Cabinet Office file releaseFriday 30 December 2022Today, we have released almost 600 Cabinet Office files covering Tony Blair’s Labour administration...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 researchForeign and Commonwealth Office files from 1990: ‘United Germany’Wednesday 28 August 2019Today, we are releasing new FCO 33 files for 1990, a large number of...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 researchHess, hot dogs and haute cuisineThursday 20 July 2017We're looking at culinary episodes in the files: prison table manners in Spandau, haute...Records and researchFiles from 1989 and 1990: Kuwait, condolences and acid houseFriday 30 December 2016Prime Minister’s Office and Cabinet files from 1989 and 1990 have been released today...Records and researchFiles from 1985/86: football, fire and hooliganismTuesday 30 December 2014The mid-1980s are often characterised as a period of success, excess and the shoulder-padded...Records and researchSpies and scandals in MI5 filesFriday 24 October 2014Spies, scandal and Marxist historians. Not a combination that usually goes together, but today’s...Records and researchThe World Cup: considering a boycott in 1982Monday 12 May 2014Many people’s memories of the 1982 football World Cup in Spain might centre on...Records and researchFiles from 1984 – The Cabinet Within CabinetFriday 3 January 2014The events of 1984 – including the murder of WPC Yvonne Fletcher outside the...Records and researchFiles from 1982 – Renewing the Values of SocietyFriday 28 December 2012Today, previously secret government files have been released and are now available to be...