Richard Aldrich
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 3764208 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Richard Aldrich |
| PRENOMES | Richard |
| SOBRENOME | Aldrich |
| ASSINATURA | ALDRICH R |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of Warwick |
| VERIFICADO | Não |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 83 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 127 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 82 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 1 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1926 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2024 |
| ÍNDICE H | 7 |
No cloak, no dagger
Project Spaceman
Much has been written about the prehistory of ‘cyber’ and computer security in the United States, but we know less about other countries. This essay seeks to examine early British efforts in this field and especially attacks by ‘Tiger Teams’ against ICL mainframe computers that were being deployed by MI5 and other agencies. Over 2 years, a sophisticated programme was completed. It argues that a severe expertise shortage ensured a degree of conver…
How to survive a crisis
Journal Article How to survive a crisis Get access How to survive a crisis: lessons in resilience and avoiding disaster. By Omand David. London and Dublin: Viking. 2023. 368pp. £20.00. Isbn978 0 24156 133 1. Available as e-book. Richard J Aldrich, Richard J Aldrich University of Warwick, UK Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Huda Mukbil, Huda Mukbil University of Ottawa, Canada Search for other works by this …
From sigint to cyber
In 2020, GCHQ published an authorised history, joining MI5 and MI6 in commemorating its centenary.1 This book is arguably more important than its predecessors, since it charts the rise of ‘The Big
Secrets, spies and editors in Cold War America
This essay considers secrets, spies and newspaper editors in the context of the Washington Post’s relationship with the CIA. The associated relationships and thoughts of Ben Bradlee, long-serving editor of the Washington Post and one of America’s most iconic journalists, are examined in detail. Bradlee spent much time reflecting on what the appropriate relationship between spies and the media should be and this is captured in his correspondence. …
Operation Rubicon
The story of Operation Rubicon provides a ‘missing link’ in the history signals intelligence. It connects the period of the Second World War, dominated by Bletchley Park and Arlington Hall, with the Snowden era. This special section examines signals intelligence in the latter decades of the twentieth century, arguing that the processes of covert interference that were used help us to understand sources and methods in our present times. It examine…
Secrecy, Spooks and Ghosts
The CIA is increasingly symbolic of major controversies in American foreign policy. It also presents the academic researcher with a fascinating paradox – since it is simultaneously secret and yet high-profile. In part, this is due to the CIA's willingness to allow former operatives to write memoirs. We argue that the memoir literature, authored by CIA personnel both high and low, together with others who worked alongside them, is now so dense tha…
Cryptography and the Global South
For decades, espionage during the Cold War was often presented as a competition between East and West. The extent to which the Global South constituted the main battleground for this conflict is now being appreciated, together with the way coups and covert regime change represented a continuation of colonialism by other means. Recent revelations about the nature of technical surveillance and signals intelligence during this period paint an even m…
The Secret Empire of Signals Intelligence
Why did Britain remove the population of an idyllic Indian Ocean archipelago? Why has Britain resisted granting citizenship to the inhabitants of another small island in the mid-Atlantic? Why does Britain still ‘own’ 90 square miles of Cyprus? The answer, we suggest, lies in part with the heritage of Bletchley Park, an obsession with informational dominance in world politics that demands the control of key nodes in international telecommunication…
Delayed Disclosure
The significance of Edward Snowden’s revelations has been viewed primarily through the prism of threats to citizen privacy. Instead, we argue that the most dramatic change has been a decline of government secrecy, especially around national security. While the ethical aspects of state secrets and ‘whistle-blowing’ have received recent attention, few have attempted to explain the dynamics of this growing climate of exposure. Our argument is largel…
Secrecy, spies and the global South
The study of secrecy and spies remain subjects dominated by Anglo-American experiences. In recent years there has been some effort to refocus the lens of research upon 'intelligence elsewhere', including the global South. This is partly because of intense interest in the Arab Spring and 'managed democracy', placing a wider range of secret services under the spotlight. However, the approach to research is still dominated by concepts and methods de…
Secrets, hostages, and ransoms
Britain has long taken a firm public line against terrorist ransom, insisting that yielding to terrorist demands only encourages further acts of intimidation and kidnapping. Hitherto, academic research has tended to take these assertions of piety at face value. This article uses a historical approach to show that the British position has shifted over time and was often more complex and pragmatic. Indeed, Britain’s position with regard to kidnap a…
Ambient accountability
In June 2013, Edward Snowden leaked remarkable details of numerous highly-classified surveillance programmes to the Washington Post and the Guardian, sparking an international furore. They revealed widespread collection against European citizens and monitoring of European premiers, notably Angela Merkel. The European media framed this episode around civil liberties, focusing upon ‘the end of privacy’ for the citizen. However, it is the contention…
Grey is the new black
For hundreds of years, states have sought to intervene in the affairs of others in a surreptitious manner. Since the professionalization of intelligence services in the aftermath of the Second World War, this behaviour has become known as covert action, which—for generations of scholars—has been defined as plausibly deniable intervention in the affairs of others; the sponsor's hand is neither apparent nor acknowledged. We challenge this orthodoxy…
The Black Door
The 100 billion dollar brain
The ‘Five Eyes’ alliance, led by the United States, spends close to 100 billion dollars a year on intelligence. This review article argues that western countries are distinguished by their sophisticated approach to the making of intelligence-led national security policy. Political leaders and policy-makers who access this sensitive material are often involved in elaborate systems that constitute part of the core executive and which seek to task a…
The red web
Journal Article The red web: the struggle between Russia's digital dictators and the new online revolutionaries. By Andrei Soldatov and Irina Borogan Get access The red web: the struggle between Russia's digital dictators and the new online revolutionaries. By Andrei Soldatovand Irina Borogan. New York: PublicAffairs. 2015. 350pp. Index. £15.80. ISBN 978 1 61039 573 1. Available as e-book. Richard J. Aldrich Richard J. Aldrich 1University of Warw…
A merican Journalism and the Landscape of Secrecy
The relationship between secret services and the press is an enduring one. Although the CIA did not seek the kind of salient media profile enjoyed by the FBI , it nevertheless maintained an informal press office from its foundation in 1947. Directors of the CIA and their senior staff devoted significant time to the public profile of the A gency. Their efforts to engage with the world of newspapers divided journalists. Some saw it as their patriot…
Damrosch family
In History and in Education
1. Time, place and the social space of a Victorian teaching family, William E. Marsden 2. Changing attitudes to the welfare of elementary schoolchidren in the 1800s, Pamela Horn 3. Authority and freedom - John Henry Newman and the formation of youth, V. Alan McClelland 4. Classics in the colonies - conflict at the University of Melbourne in the 1850s, R.J.W. Selleck. 5. Personalities and policy - Sadler, Morand and the structure of education in E…
Nature, nurture and neuroscience
Following a short introduction this article is divided into three main sections. The first provides definitions and brief histories of the nature-nurture debate and of neuroscience. The second section shows how in recent decades neuroscientific research has impacted on the debate with particular reference to our understanding of human intelligence and IQ. The third section examines findings from futurology and transhumanism. The article concludes…
A life in education and architecture
In June 2005 Catherine Burke was on a train journey when she came across an obituary of Mary (Crowley) Medd in the Guardian newspaper. It described how Mary ‘made contacts with the best teachers, l
In search of ‘time-tested truths’
This article has a dual purpose. The first is to pay tribute to the work of Richard Selleck and Geoffrey Sherington; the second to argue that historians of education can make substantial contributions to current and future educational policy and practice by identifying what Ravitch has called ‘time-tested truths’. The nature and purpose of historical study are examined with particular reference to education and to making maps of the past. Example…
Kenneth Conboy. The Cambodian Wars
Journal Article Kenneth Conboy. The Cambodian Wars: Clashing Armies and CIA Covert Operations. Get access Kenneth Conboy. The Cambodian Wars: Clashing Armies and CIA Covert Operations. (Modern War Studies.) Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2013. Pp. xvii, 401. $39.95. Richard J. Aldrich Richard J. Aldrich University of Warwick [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The American Hist…
The Clandestine Cold War in Asia, 1945-65
A range of clandestine Cold War activities in Asia, from intelligence and propaganda to special operations and security support, is examined here. The contributions draw on newly-opened archives and a two-day conference on the subject
Contending cultures of counterterrorism
Terrorist attacks on the United States, Spain and the United Kingdom have underlined the differing responses of Europe and the United States to the ‘new terrorism’. This article analyses these responses through the prism of historically determined strategic cultures. For the last four years the United States has directed the full resources of a ‘national security’ approach towards this threat and has emphasized unilateralism. Europe, based on its…
Grey is the new black
For hundreds of years, states have sought to intervene in the affairs of others in a surreptitious manner. Since the professionalization of intelligence services in the aftermath of the Second World War, this behaviour has become known as covert action, which—for generations of scholars—has been defined as plausibly deniable intervention in the affairs of others; the sponsor's hand is neither apparent nor acknowledged. We challenge this orthodoxy…
Delayed Disclosure
The significance of Edward Snowden’s revelations has been viewed primarily through the prism of threats to citizen privacy. Instead, we argue that the most dramatic change has been a decline of government secrecy, especially around national security. While the ethical aspects of state secrets and ‘whistle-blowing’ have received recent attention, few have attempted to explain the dynamics of this growing climate of exposure. Our argument is largel…
History in the National Curriculum
An exposition of why, how and what history should be taught in schools, written by authors with wide and varied experience of the study and teaching of history. It also encompasses the wider issue of the place of history in society
Transatlantic intelligence and security cooperation
Despite recent advances in transatlantic intelligence and security cooperation, significant problems remain. The bombings in Madrid in March 2004 have demonstrated how terrorists and criminals can continue to exploit the limits of hesitant or partial exchange to dangerous effect. Intelligence and security cooperation remain problematic because of the fundamental tension between an increasingly networked world, which is ideal terrain for the new r…
Policing the Past
Britain's 'long retreat' from Empire has been well catalogued. By contrast, the policies, which underpinned the long retreat from absolute secrecy, have themselves been secret. In particular, policy towards official history on secret matters has also been hidden. It is only now that significant papers on post-war intelligence history are being released into the public domain. New materials, available under the Open Government Initiative, offer fa…
The Future of Cyber-Resilience in an Age of Global Complexity
This article seeks to discuss two key challenges in the area of cyber-resilience. First, it asks: who owns UK cyber-resilience? Some 80 per cent of the UK's critical national infrastructure is in private hands and the last decade has seen efforts to legislate away some of the problem of resilience by creating legal duties for service providers. This has contributed to a new ecology for intelligence, security and resilience consisting of complex s…
British intelligence and the Anglo-American ‘Special Relationship’ during the Cold War
Our present understanding of British intelligence and its relationship to Anglo-American cooperation in the postwar period leaves much to be desired. Indeed while it has often been remarked that the twin pillars of Anglo-American security cooperation were atomic weapons and intelligence exchange, there remains an alarming disparity in our understanding of these two areas. The importance of intelligence is often commented on, but rarely subjected …
US–European Intelligence Co-Operation on Counter-Terrorism
Since 9/11, intelligence has been viewed as an integral part of a controversial ‘war on terror’. The acrimonious public arguments over subjects such as Iraqi WMD assessments, secret prisons and the interrogation of detainees suggest intense transatlantic discord. Yet improbably, some of those countries that have expressed strident disagreement in public are privately the closest intelligence partners. It is argued here that we can explain this se…
Britain's Secret Intelligence Service in Asia During the Second World War
The past twenty years have seen the rapid growth of a new branch of international history, the serious academic study of secret services or 'intelligence history' with its attendant specialist conferences and journals. Two main causes for this development can be identified. The first was conceptual, namely the increasing recognition that the study of international history was greatly impoverished by the reluctance of academic historians to addres…
Britain and the Strategic Air Offensive Against the Soviet Union
Secrecy, spies and the global South
The study of secrecy and spies remain subjects dominated by Anglo-American experiences. In recent years there has been some effort to refocus the lens of research upon 'intelligence elsewhere', including the global South. This is partly because of intense interest in the Arab Spring and 'managed democracy', placing a wider range of secret services under the spotlight. However, the approach to research is still dominated by concepts and methods de…
Ambient accountability
In June 2013, Edward Snowden leaked remarkable details of numerous highly-classified surveillance programmes to the Washington Post and the Guardian, sparking an international furore. They revealed widespread collection against European citizens and monitoring of European premiers, notably Angela Merkel. The European media framed this episode around civil liberties, focusing upon ‘the end of privacy’ for the citizen. However, it is the contention…
A merican Journalism and the Landscape of Secrecy
The relationship between secret services and the press is an enduring one. Although the CIA did not seek the kind of salient media profile enjoyed by the FBI , it nevertheless maintained an informal press office from its foundation in 1947. Directors of the CIA and their senior staff devoted significant time to the public profile of the A gency. Their efforts to engage with the world of newspapers divided journalists. Some saw it as their patriot…
In History and in Education
Whitehall wiring
Britain's Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ) enjoys two main roles, signals intelligence and communications security. We know a great deal about signals intelligence but far less about the defensive security side of its activities. This article traces the development and growth of Britain’s communications security establishment as an unknown fourth British secret service during the 1950s and 1960s. This body was the antecedent of the C…
Escaping from American intelligence
The United States and its closest allies now spend over $100 billion a year on intelligence. Ten years after 9/11, the intelligence machine is certainly bigger—but not necessarily better. American intelligence continues to privilege old-fashioned strategic analysis for policy-makers and exhibits a technocratic approach to asymmetric security threats, epitomized by the accelerated use of drone strikes and data-mining. Distinguished commentators ha…
Beyond the vigilant state
The world of intelligence has grown exponentially over the last decade. This article suggests that prevailing explanation of this expansion – the spectre of ‘new terrorism’ – reflects serious misunderstandings. Much of the emergency legislation which has extended the power of the state so remarkably was already sitting in the pending trays of officials in the late 1990s. Instead, the rise of both the ‘new terrorism’ and its supposed nemesis – the…
The Clandestine Cold War in Asia, 1945-65
Radicalism, National Education and the Grant of 1833
The Secret Empire of Signals Intelligence
Why did Britain remove the population of an idyllic Indian Ocean archipelago? Why has Britain resisted granting citizenship to the inhabitants of another small island in the mid-Atlantic? Why does Britain still ‘own’ 90 square miles of Cyprus? The answer, we suggest, lies in part with the heritage of Bletchley Park, an obsession with informational dominance in world politics that demands the control of key nodes in international telecommunication…
The 100 billion dollar brain
The ‘Five Eyes’ alliance, led by the United States, spends close to 100 billion dollars a year on intelligence. This review article argues that western countries are distinguished by their sophisticated approach to the making of intelligence-led national security policy. Political leaders and policy-makers who access this sensitive material are often involved in elaborate systems that constitute part of the core executive and which seek to task a…
The New Education and the Institute of Education, University of London, 1919–1945
The London Day Training College (LDTC), founded in 1902, soon became the leading institution for the study of education and for the training of teachers in England. In 1932 it was transmuted into the Institute of Education of the University of London. Its title and pre‐eminence have continued to this day. In the period 1919–1945 it was closely, but by no means solely, identified with elements of the New Education. This article covers both the int…
Intelligence within Baor and Nato's Northern Army Group
During the Cold War the UK's principal military role was its commitment to the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO) through the British Army of the Rhine (BAOR), together with wartime command of NATO's Northern Army Group. The possibility of a surprise attack by the numerically superior Warsaw Pact forces ensured that great importance was attached to intelligence, warning and rapid mobilisation. As yet we know very little about the intellige…
Education as a University Subject in England
(1998). Education as a University Subject in England: An Historical Interpretation. Paedagogica Historica: Vol. 34, History of Educational Studies, pp. 121-138
At the Back of Some Dedications
AT THE BACK OF SOME DEDICATIONS RICHARD ALDRICH RICHARD ALDRICH Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Music and Letters, Volume VII, Issue 3, July 1926, Pages 240–245, https://doi.org/10.1093/ml/VII.3.240 Published: 01 July 1926
Beethoven and George Thomson
Journal Article BEETHOVEN AND GEORGE THOMSON Get access RICHARD ALDRICH RICHARD ALDRICH Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Music and Letters, Volume VIII, Issue 2, April 1927, Pages 234–242, https://doi.org/10.1093/ml/VIII.2.234 Published: 01 April 1927
Style in Mexican Architecture
Radicalism, National Education and the Grant of 1833
The City University
A Local Government Perspective
(1983). 1870: A LOCAL GOVERNMENT PERSPECTIVE. Journal of Educational Administration and History: Vol. 15, No. 1, pp. 22-26
Understanding History of Education
Boys Together
Abstracts of Articles
This paper explores the many different biographies of the 19th century Chinese Malaysian leader Yap Ah Loy, showing how shifts in the stories reveal changing Chinese ideas about leadership and
The Creation of the Local Authority Sector of Higher Education
A Question of Expediency
This passage was written on 27 March 1945 by Major Andrew Gilchrist, a Foreign Office official serving with the Special Operations Executive in Thailand. It neatly demonstrates the manner in which the wartime debate within and between the various Allied bureaucracies responsible for Thailand's post war status appeared to be dominated by the circumstances of Thailand's rapid capitulation to Japan in December 1941. Subsequently, diametrically oppos…
Britain and the Strategic Air Offensive Against the Soviet Union
The Search for Enlightenment
Case Studies in Curriculum Administration History
This collection of essays examines the history of curriculum development in a variety of countries in the 19th and 20th centuries. In the opinion of the editors, the work done in this field hitherto has been as inadequate as the subject is important
History in the National Curriculum
An exposition of why, how and what history should be taught in schools, written by authors with wide and varied experience of the study and teaching of history. It also encompasses the wider issue of the place of history in society
Education and Policy in England in the Twentieth Century
Education and Policy in England in the Twentieth Century
In the 1990s education has become one of the major social and political questions of the day. This book has been written to provide an authoritative guide to the issues which underlie the formulation of educational policy. It stands both as a substantial historical study in its own right and as an essential background and introduction to the current educational debate
The foreign affairs oral history program
A Lesson for Us All. The Making of the National Curriculum
Drawing on so far unpublished documents, A Lesson for Us All tells of the intrigue and pressures that surrounded the introduction of the National Curriculum, the most sweeping educational reform since 1944, and examines the roles of three education secretaries: Kenneth Baker, John MacGregor and Kenneth Clarke. Duncan Graham was the man charged with introducing the new-style lessons into the 24,000 state schools in England and Wales from 1988 to 1…
The Real Simon Pure
History in education
This article is divided into four parts. The introduction locates the discussion within a modern, “western” context and provides definitions of, and commentary upon, four terms: history, education, culture and transmission. The first of two central sections examines the role of the historian as educator of the nation. After a brief reference to the work of medieval and early modern historians, attention is focused upon the contributions of such n…
School and Society in Victorian Britain
School and Society in Victorian Britain
Drawing upon hitherto-unused sources and written in a lively, accessible style, this book represents a shift in the historiography of British education. At the center of the investigation is Joseph Payne, born in humble circumstances in 1808, who in 1873 was appointed to the first professorship in Britain, established by a chartered body of schoolteachers. By that date Payne had acquired a considerable reputation-as the founder of two of the most…
OSS, CIA and European unity
(1997). OSS, CIA and European unity: The American committee on United Europe, 1948–60. Diplomacy & Statecraft: Vol. 8, No. 1, pp. 184-227
In History and in Education
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