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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 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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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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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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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 › peer-review
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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 › peer-review
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‘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 › peer-review
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Dan Snow's History Hit Interview
4/07/19
1 Media contribution
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Last Cambridge Spy featured in Mail on Sunday
27/04/19
1 item of Media coverage
Press/Media: Public Engagement Activities