State Secrets and the Public Archive: Cold War Spycraft and the Literary Heritage of British Espionage

知识框架：该项目的目的是考虑英国国家档案馆与战后时期归档和传播与英国冷战间谍活动有关的以前分类的新发布的国家机密的方式之间的关系。该项目将探索冷战期间英国间谍活动的档案历史与间谍/惊悚片类型中的文化来世之间的交叉。这个项目的目的是了解档案材料和文学小说在英国的冷战文化记忆中重叠的方式，这是当代所谓的“后真相”时代特别重要的关注点，在这个时代，英国政治本身已经成为一种中介的公共“小说”，并且一种新的英俄“冷战”似乎正在发挥作用-部分证明，2018年，俄罗斯前GRU特工谢尔盖·斯克里帕尔和他的女儿在索尔兹伯里被诺维乔克下毒。TNA包含了大量的文件，信件和以前的机密文件，涉及一些历史上重要的英国间谍和叛逃者，这些人帮助塑造了冷战的看法，包括约翰·瓦索尔，盖伊·伯吉斯，唐纳德·麦克莱恩，金·菲尔比和安东尼·布朗特。它还包含关于波特兰间谍网、普罗富莫事件和苏联间谍克劳斯·福克斯的材料。军情五处的文件包括识别协议、监视报告和截获的电话。此外，档案馆还收藏了大量关于间谍活动和小玩意的材料，关于虚假信息和宣传的文件，以及1939年至1951年期间与秘密情报局有关的外交部材料。这些档案馆还保存着许多英国著名文学人物的档案，他们的作品在间谍/惊悚片类型中很突出，包括伊恩·弗莱明的公务员委员会（CSC）档案和关于30突击队的文件;信息研究部资助的小说（乔治奥威尔）的文件;以及信息情报和宣传材料部（约翰·巴肯）。内阁办公室（CAB）系列的官方历史也包含了大量关于情报历史的背景和上下文材料。创建档案：学生将需要制定一个框架，在英国冷战文化来世的背景下解释这些档案材料，并设计方法向学者和公众宣传这些丰富的档案资源。通过持续的研究传播（包括增强的目录描述）和公众参与（实际和虚拟），学生对档案的开发将确保该项目在博士之后有自己的来世。公众参与和影响：作为TNA不断扩大的公众参与议程的一部分，学生将与档案馆合作，开发公众参与的机会，包括为MI5的大型展览，研究讨论和会谈的组织，以及学校和教育推广计划做出贡献。TNA还提供安置活动，在此期间，学生将获得支持，以发展自己的就业技能，并根据TNA围绕扩大参与的目标为教育和参与举措做出贡献。

Intellectual Framework: The aim of this project is to consider the relationship between Britain's National Archives and the ways in which previously classified, newly-released state secrets pertaining to British Cold War espionage have been archived and disseminated in the post-war period. The project will explore crossovers between the archival history of British espionage during the Cold War and its cultural afterlife within the spy/thriller genre. The aim of this project is to understand the ways in which both archival material and literary fiction overlap in Britain's cultural memory of the Cold War, a particularly vital concern in the contemporary, so-called 'posttruth' era in which British politics has become a sort of mediated public 'fiction' in itself, and in which a new kind of Anglo-Russian 'cold war' seems to be at play - evidenced, in part, by the 2018 Novichok poisoning of former Russian GRU agent Sergey Skripal and his daughter in Salisbury. TNA contains numerous files, letters, and previously classified documents on a number of historically important British spies and defectors to Russia which have helped to shape the perception of the Cold War, including John Vassall, Guy Burgess, Donald Maclean, Kim Philby, and Anthony Blunt. It also contains material holdings on the Portland Spy Ring, the Profumo Affair, and the Soviet spy Klaus Fuchs. MI5 documentation includes recognition protocols, surveillance reports, and intercepted phone calls. Furthermore, the archives house a great deal of material on spycraft and gadgetry, documentation concerning disinformation and propaganda, and Foreign Office material relating to the Secret Intelligence Service from 1939-1951. The archives also hold various files pertaining to a number of salient British literary figures whose work is prominent within the spy/thriller genre, including Ian Fleming's Civil Service Commission (CSC) files and documentation on the 30 Assault Unit; documentation on Information Research Department-funded novels (George Orwell); and Department of Information intelligence and propaganda material (John Buchan). The Official Histories in the Cabinet Office (CAB) series also contain a great deal of background and contextual material concerning intelligence histories. Developing the Archive: The student will be expected to develop a framework for interpreting this archival material in the context of the Cold War's cultural afterlife in Britain, as well as devising ways to promote this rich spectrum of archival sources for both scholars and the general public. The student's development of the archive, through sustained research dissemination (including enhanced catalogue descriptions) and public engagement (both actual and virtual), will ensure that the project has its own afterlife beyond the PhD. Public Engagement and Impact: As part of the expanding public engagement agenda of TNA, the student will work with the archives to develop public engagement opportunities, including contributing to a major exhibition on MI5, organisation of research discussions and talks, and schools and educational outreach programmes. TNA also provides placement activities, during which the student will be supported to develop their own employment skills and contribute to education and engagement initiatives in line with the goals of TNA around widening participation.