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Research Interests
I am an historian of modern Britain. With a particular interest in intelligence and espionage history and the Home Front during the Second World War, my work has focussed on the dynamics of class and gender on secret organisations. My first book, The Hidden History of Bletchley Park, was published in 2015. My second book, a biography of John Cairncross, the "fifth man" of the Cambridge Ring of Five spy ring, was published in May 2019. I am currently writing a third book, under contract with McGill-Queen's University Press, examining memory, secrecy, mythologies and Bletchley Park.
Biography
I joined Coventry University in February 2017. I am an elected fellow of the Royal Historical Society and a member of the Social History Society.
Education/Academic qualification
British History, Doctorate
Award Date: 1 Jun 2013
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John Cairncross, RASCLS and a Reassessment of His Motives
Smith, C., 7 Jun 2022, In: Intelligence and National Security. 37, 4, p. 526-540 15 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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The Great Chester Cat Hoax: Creating an Urban Legend in the Anglosphere Press, 1815-1955
Smith, C., Jan 2022, In: History. 107, 374, p. 74-96 23 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Bletchley Park and Big Science: Industrialising the Secret War, 1939-1945
Smith, C., 2021, In: Journal of Intelligence History. 20, 2, p. 109-125 17 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Review - Behind the enigma: the authorised history of GCHQ, Britain’s secret cyber-intelligence agency: by John Ferris, London, Bloomsbury, 2020, 848 pp., £30 (hardback), ISBN HB: 978-1-5266-0546-7
Smith, C., 23 Dec 2021, (E-pub ahead of print) In: Journal of Intelligence History. (In-Press), p. (In-Press)Research output: Contribution to journal › Book/Film/Article review
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The Last Cambridge Spy: John Cairncross, Bletchley Codebreaker and Soviet Double Agent
Smith, C., 13 May 2019, 1 ed. Stroud: The History Press. 256 p.Research output: Book/Report › Book
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Review of Britain’s War: A New World, 1942–1947 by Daniel Todman
12/05/21
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Dan Snow's History Hit Interview
4/07/19
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Press/Media: Public Engagement Activities
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