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Shadows of the First World War: Surveillance, Censorship, and the Right to Privacy

by Catherine Katz Catherine Katz is an MPhil in Modern European History student at the University of Cambridge. In a recent Wall Street Journal article, historian…
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Secrets in the Archives – Breaching the personal privacy of the long dead

By Alex Wakelam @A_Wakelam The natural course of a life leaves an unintentional trail of breadcrumbs. Generally we never think twice of what we leave in the historical record whether it be major life moments (birth, marriage, change of address) or the little things like the discarded bus ticket or receipt for coffee that gets miraculously preserved.…
