Research Output per year
Personal profile
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 most recent book is biography of John Cairncross, the so-called "fifth man" of the Cambridge Five spy ring, published in May 2019.
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
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masculinity
Social Sciences
World War
Social Sciences
gender
Social Sciences
Wartime
Arts & Humanities
resilience
Social Sciences
Second World War
Arts & Humanities
social status
Social Sciences
intelligence
Social Sciences
Research Output 2012 2019
Bletchley Park and Big Science: Industrialising the Secret War, 1939-1945
Smith, C., 15 Aug 2019, (Accepted/In press) In : Journal of Intelligence History. (In-Press), p. (In-Press)Research output: Contribution to journal › Article
Enterprise
Big Science
Military
Second World War
Traffic
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
Ring
Spies
Espionage
Treasury
Enigma
Sherlock Holmes and the Nazis: Fifth Columnists and the People’s War in Anglo-American Cinema, 1942-1943
Smith, C., Jul 2018, In : Journal of British Cinema and Television. 15, 3, p. 308-327 20 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Special issue
Open Access
File
Columnist
Anglo-American
American Cinema
Sherlock Holmes
Propaganda
Women in the Shadow War: Gender, Class and MI5 in the Second World War
Toy, R. & Smith, C., 2018, In : Women's History Review. 27, 5, p. 688-706 19 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article
Open Access
File
World War
gender
masculinity
resilience
social status
‘Bright chaps for hush-hush jobs’: masculinity, class and civilians in uniform at Bletchley Park
Smith, C., 2018, Men, Masculinities and Male Culture in the Second World War. Pattinson, J. & Robb, L. (eds.). Palgrave Macmillan, p. 145-168 24 p.Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter
Open Access
File
masculinity
World War
communications
Military
traffic
Press / Media
Dan Snow's History Hit Interview
4/07/19
1 media contribution
Press/Media: Public Engagement Activities
Last Cambridge Spy featured in Mail on Sunday
27/04/19
1 item of media coverage
Press/Media: Public Engagement Activities
Brexit and the Memory of the Second World War
14/02/19
1 media contribution
Press/Media: Expert Comment