'Secret Files from World Wars to Cold War’ U.K. National Archives on Trial until 04 June

22 April 2016

Spanning four key twentieth-century conflicts, with a spotlight on the Second World War, ‘Secret Files from World Wars to Cold War’ provides access to British government secret intelligence and foreign policy files from 1873 to 1953.

Sourced from The National Archives, U.K., the range of documents – from signals intelligence reports to government-directed policy and strategy – will support teaching and research from the period of Appeasement right through to the early Cold War. The content of the material is international in its breadth and scope, and includes the ANZ region.

At the heart of this resource are the files of the Permanent Undersecretary’s Department (PUSD). The PUSD was the point of liaison between the Foreign Office and the British intelligence establishment, and these files document intelligence activities and their influence on foreign policy from 1873 to 1951, providing new insights into key moments of twentieth-century history.

Content is primary, curated, and annotated which enables rich research into intelligence, foreign policy, international relations, and military history in the period of Appeasement, through the Second World War, and into the early Cold War.

This database is accessible from the A-Z Databases page, on the right side menu under ‘Current Trials’ http://guides.lib.monash.edu/az.php

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