

Global Citizenship Challenge Brief
As part of the Out of the Shadows project, we collaborated with WJEC/CBAC (the Welsh Exam Board) to organise events in various schools....


Teacher Training Event Write-up
We are back after the summer break and it's a good time for a write-up on the project's Teachers Training event on Politics, History, and...


Storyboarding Spy History
For those scholars working on the history of intelligence and covert operations, the clandestine nature of the secret state poses many...


Children, Young People and Democracy in Wales
Senedd, Cardiff, 20th June 2018 The 'Children, Young People and Democracy in Wales' event aimed to draw attention to and stimulate...


NEW: Book Review - Spy Chiefs Volume 1
Christopher Moran, Mark Stout, Ioanna Iordanu, Paul Maddrell, Spy Chiefs, Volume 1: Intelligence Leaders in the United States and United...


NEW: Out of the Shadows Podcast Episode 3
In our third episode, we have a chat with Michael Poznansky, Assistant Professor of International Affairs and Intelligence Studies at the...


Out of the Shadows Report and Hillary Clinton's Visit
We are reposting here an article originally published on the British Academy website. The article gives an overview of the project so far...


Out of the Shadows Conference 2017
What does it mean for a Presidency to be 'Imperial'? Who were the 'Imperial' presidents? How do presidents make decisions in foreign...


NEW: Out of the Shadows Podcast Episode 2
We travelled to Nottingham to meet Dr Rory Cormac, Associate Professor of International Relations at the University of Nottingham. In...


Book Review: Darke Territory by Fred Kaplan
Fred Kaplan, a national security journalist at Slate, is the author of several successful books detailing the politics of national...