Next Seminar: Dr Helen Fry will talk about her book the M Room: Wednesday 15 May 2013, 6.30 pm, 102 Middlesex Street, E17EZ.
Helen Fry has written numerous books on the Second World War. He latest work,
The M Room: Secret Listeners who Bugged the Nazis has received extensive coverage in articles which have appeared on the BBC website, in the Evening Standard newspaper, front page article in London Jewish News; and numerous radio interviews, including Russian Worldservice.
The M Room was the subject of a Channel 4 documentary in spring 2013 and on 29 January 2013 two surviving secret listeners appeared with Helen in a live TV interview on BBC1's The One Show .
INTO UEA London is proud to have hosted a series of speakers in this exciting seminar series on the fascinating and sometimes shocking reality of the secret state.
Previous Seminars
In March 2103 Dr Christopher Moran, spoke about Classified, or how we came to know about the secret state in Britain.
In October 2012 we were delighted to welcome Prof. Chris Andrew to talk about his official history of MI5, The Defence Of The Realm, published in 2009 to mark the 100th anniversary of the Security Service.
In May 2012 Prof. Richard Aldrich fascinated listeners with an analysis of the United Kingdom's most far-reaching and expensive intelligence enterprise, GCHQ. Eavesdropping on the World ranged across the postwar growth of SIGINT (signals intelligence) from its wartime beginnings at Bletchley Park to the colossal redevelopment at Cheltenham in the 1990s. Professor Aldrich's talk included such wide ranging topics as of the death of PC Yvonne Fletcher outside the Libyan Peoples Bureau and current internet security.
In November 2011, Prof. M.R. D Foot held a crowded audience enthralled as he related his experience as a secret historian, writing the seminal account of Special Operations Executive’s clandestine war against the Nazis in occupied France. SOE in France, written from the then secret archive in Whitehall, was published by HMSO to both acclaim and controversy in 1966. A masterpiece of its kind, lucid, elegant, informative the book is the key text on Britain’s involvement in French Resistance; it was reprinted in 1968 and republished in 2004 with annotations by St. Ermin’s press.
In December, Prof. Keith Jeffery author of MI6 the History of the Secret Intelligence Service 1909-1949 (Bloomsbury 2010) dazzled the audience with his experience of writing a commissioned history of an organisation which officially didn’t exist until the dawn of the 21st century.
Watch out for more secret history in 2013
For further information please contact: [email protected] or click on the button at the top of the page.
The M Room: Secret Listeners who Bugged the Nazis has received extensive coverage in articles which have appeared on the BBC website, in the Evening Standard newspaper, front page article in London Jewish News; and numerous radio interviews, including Russian Worldservice.
The M Room was the subject of a Channel 4 documentary in spring 2013 and on 29 January 2013 two surviving secret listeners appeared with Helen in a live TV interview on BBC1's The One Show .
INTO UEA London is proud to have hosted a series of speakers in this exciting seminar series on the fascinating and sometimes shocking reality of the secret state.
Previous Seminars
In March 2103 Dr Christopher Moran, spoke about Classified, or how we came to know about the secret state in Britain.
In October 2012 we were delighted to welcome Prof. Chris Andrew to talk about his official history of MI5, The Defence Of The Realm, published in 2009 to mark the 100th anniversary of the Security Service.
In May 2012 Prof. Richard Aldrich fascinated listeners with an analysis of the United Kingdom's most far-reaching and expensive intelligence enterprise, GCHQ. Eavesdropping on the World ranged across the postwar growth of SIGINT (signals intelligence) from its wartime beginnings at Bletchley Park to the colossal redevelopment at Cheltenham in the 1990s. Professor Aldrich's talk included such wide ranging topics as of the death of PC Yvonne Fletcher outside the Libyan Peoples Bureau and current internet security.
In November 2011, Prof. M.R. D Foot held a crowded audience enthralled as he related his experience as a secret historian, writing the seminal account of Special Operations Executive’s clandestine war against the Nazis in occupied France. SOE in France, written from the then secret archive in Whitehall, was published by HMSO to both acclaim and controversy in 1966. A masterpiece of its kind, lucid, elegant, informative the book is the key text on Britain’s involvement in French Resistance; it was reprinted in 1968 and republished in 2004 with annotations by St. Ermin’s press.
In December, Prof. Keith Jeffery author of MI6 the History of the Secret Intelligence Service 1909-1949 (Bloomsbury 2010) dazzled the audience with his experience of writing a commissioned history of an organisation which officially didn’t exist until the dawn of the 21st century.
Watch out for more secret history in 2013
For further information please contact: [email protected] or click on the button at the top of the page.