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

知识框架：这个项目的目的是考虑英国国家档案馆之间的关系，以及在战后时期，与英国冷战间谍活动有关的以前分类的、新发布的国家机密被存档和传播的方式。该项目将探索冷战期间英国间谍活动的档案历史及其在间谍/惊悚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对冷战的文化记忆中重叠的方式，在当代，所谓的“后真相”时代，这是一个特别重要的问题，在这个时代，英国政治本身已经成为一种媒介化的公共“小说”，在这个时代，一种新的英俄“冷战”似乎正在发挥作用——部分证明，2018年，俄罗斯前格鲁乌特工谢尔盖·斯克里帕尔和他的女儿在索尔兹伯里被诺维乔克毒杀。TNA包含大量档案、信件和以前的机密文件，内容涉及一些历史上重要的英国间谍和叛逃到俄罗斯的人，这些人帮助塑造了对冷战的看法，包括约翰·瓦萨尔、盖伊·伯吉斯、唐纳德·麦克林、金·菲尔比和安东尼·布朗特。它还包含波特兰间谍网、普罗富莫事件和苏联间谍克劳斯·富克斯的资料。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和小器具的材料，关于虚假情报和宣传的文件，以及1939年至1951年与秘密情报局有关的外交部材料。档案馆还保存着与一些杰出的英国文学人物有关的各种文件，这些文学人物的作品在间谍/惊悚题材中占有突出地位，包括伊恩·弗莱明（Ian Fleming）的公务员委员会（CSC）文件和30突击部队的文件；信息研究部资助的小说文献（乔治·奥威尔）；情报和宣传材料部（约翰·巴肯）。内阁府的官方历史（CAB）系列也包含大量有关情报历史的背景和背景材料。发展档案：学生将被要求建立一个框架，在英国冷战文化的背景下解释这些档案材料，并设计出向学者和公众推广这种丰富的档案来源的方法。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），学生对档案的发展将确保该项目在博士学位之后拥有自己的来世。公众参与和影响：作为TNA扩大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机会，包括参与军情五处的大型展览，组织研究讨论和讲座，以及学校和教育推广计划。TNA还提供就业活动，在此期间，学生将获得支持，以发展自己的就业技能，并为符合TNA扩大参与目标的教育和参与倡议做出贡献。

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and the ways in which previously classified, newly-released state secrets pertaining to British Cold War espionage have been archived and disseminated in the post-war period.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.