Tag: Spy Week
The case of Winnie Verloc
Susan Jones is Professor of English Literature at the University of Oxford. Here she explores Conrad’s treatment of Winnie Verloc from ‘The Secret Agent’–one of the writer’s most deadly protagonists.
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Insight into one of ‘The Bletchley Girls’
In our second post for Edinburgh Spy Week, Tessa Dunlop shares the time she spent with Rozanne Colchester, one of the many women who worked as codebreakers at Bletchley Park during World War II.
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Breaking the mould as the first female Director General of MI5
Dame Stella Rimington was the first female Director General of UK intelligence service MI5. Today, she recalls changing perceptions of her as a ‘dangerous woman’.
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