This exhibition shows personal archives, printed books, official publicity material & specialist photographs & maps to illustrate a few of the ways in which spies have been documented. Highlights include: a 12th century manuscript recounting the story of King Alfred the Great entering the Danish camp disguised as a harpist; papers used investigating the Atterbury Plot in the 1720s; a draft telegram from the MI6 chief in St Petersburg in 1917 with news of Rasputin´s murder; a letter from Anthony Blunt telling how he was almost beaten up in Nazi Germany; & a Soviet military map Photographs and Sculpture by Russell Cuthbert, Fiona Bennett and Marina Velez Vago
Monday 1 March 2010
Scene session one, initial research.
09:00 - 18:00
Free
Phone: (01223) 333000
Clare Hall
Cambridge University,Herschel Road, Cambridge
Photographs and Sculpture09:00 - 18:00
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