Lecturer in Modern History, Coventry University
I am an historian of modern Britain with research interests in secrecy and intelligence during the Second World War and Cold War. I wrote my Doctoral thesis on the social history of Bletchley Park and my book, The Hidden History of Bletchley Park, was published by Palgrave Macmillan in 2015. I have taught at Aberystwyth University, the University of Worcester, the University of Kent, Bournemouth University and am currently a Lecturer in History at Coventry University.
Michael Foot spy allegations and why MI6 should come clean about the past
Sep 25, 2018 17:48 pm UTC| Insights & Views Politics
According to The Times the late Michael Foot, the former leader of the Labour Party, was a Soviet confidential contact on the payroll of the KGB to the tune of 37,000 (in todays money). This might come as something of a...
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