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SUMMARY:Soccer and the Intelligence Services: Why they matter? - Christoph
 er Andrews
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CONTACT:Andrew N Holding
DESCRIPTION:First\, the 1883 cup final\, the only occasion when the workin
 g class was able to take on the upper class without the middle class getti
 ng in the way. Chris speaks from (nearly) personal knowledge. In a low bud
 get Channel 4 re-enactment at the Kennington Oval (where the final took pl
 ace) he played all the parts. Blackburn were the first working-class team 
 to get to the final\, hitherto always won by old public school teams. Chri
 s will reveal how Blackburn beat the Old Etonians. After 1883 no public sc
 hool team ever made it to the finals again--with momentous consequences fo
 r British (and Italian politics) history.\n\nEqually momentous was the fou
 nding of MI5 in 1909 -- the first British organisation to try to recruit c
 lever women (not so far noticed by our colleagues in gender studies). For 
 the first time some of the gents found that their secretaries were better 
 educated as well as better bred than they were. The first female finance d
 irector in Whitehall history worked for MI5 in WW1 -- just as at the end o
 f the Cold War MI5 became the first major intelligence agency anywhere in 
 the world to have a female head. Of great importance too is the fact that 
 intelligence remains the only profession in which a fictional Cambridge gr
 aduate (Bond) remains far better known than any real member of the intelli
 gence profession\, alive or dead. There should be time to move on to Brita
 in's most secret cricket team and its connection with counter-terrorism.\n
 \nChris Andrew is co-convenor of the Cambridge University Intelligence Sem
 inar\, Emeritus Professor of Modern & Contemporary History\, Honorary Air 
 Commodore\, ex- President of Corpus Christi College\, former Visiting Prof
 essor at Harvard\, Toronto and the Australian National University. He has 
 presented numerous BBC documentaries (including\, for 14 years\, Radio 4 '
 What If?'). The most recent of his 18 books\, Defence of the Realm(Penguin
 )\, written as official historian of MI5\, was the 2010 UK best-seller in 
 the Politics category.
LOCATION:The Maypole
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