ENSiS

Edinburgh Network for Studies in Secrecy (ENSiS) traces the way secrecy and spying run through our history and culture in literature, history and film.

[ENSiS @EdinSecrecy]

Edinburgh Network for Studies in Secrecy is launching! We are the successor to @SpyWeek and we'll be keeping our focus on author events while adding some more academic sessions. All are welcome!

[Penny Fielding @PenFielding]

Perfect airport read. Thank you @noexitpress for sending me this terrific novel.

[ENSiS @EdinSecrecy]

@n_l_ferris What a fantastic paper. Loved the way you teased out the new calibration of sensations against the background of intelligence work.

[ENSiS @EdinSecrecy]

@spybrary Not quite as right as the basement he inhabits in the TV series

[ENSiS @EdinSecrecy]

Tomorrow! The secret of modernity is under discussion. All are welcome to some or all of the talks, but please register here: https://t.co/ya97oz4Fnb @LLCatEdinburgh

[Natalie Ferris @n_l_ferris]

Surfacing from new job hibernation to speak at the launch of this exciting new network in secrecy studies (@EdinSecrecy) on 14 Dec at @EdinburghUni. Papers on mapping, spying, plumbing, doubling, doubting!
All online & free to join for panels from 2pm... https://t.co/AtrGPosIGU

[ENSiS @EdinSecrecy]

We are so looking forward to hearing your paper!

[Natalie Ferris @n_l_ferris]

Surfacing from new job hibernation to speak at the launch of this exciting new network in secrecy studies (@EdinSecrecy) on 14 Dec at @EdinburghUni. Papers on mapping, spying, plumbing, doubling, doubting!
All online & free to join for panels from 2pm... https://t.co/AtrGPosIGU

[ENSiS @EdinSecrecy]

A bargain for some of the tautest and most involving spy fiction out there

[Spybrary @spybrary]

Smiley is suspicious Percy!

Today we kick off the #JohnleCarre movie club series
To start the series, a full debriefing of Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy with our #Spybrary panel. #spymovies

Available on all good podcast apps and at https://t.co/YwkIElrMQ2

[Jeff @spywrite]

I was able to join the @SpyHards podcast to talk with @BenMacintyre1 and Alexander Cary about the upcoming adaptation of A SPY AMONG FRIENDS.
Plus we give our thoughts on the first two episodes.
You won’t want miss it!
Link in the thread.

[ENSiS @EdinSecrecy]

@Robert4787 @SpyWeek Thanks Robert!

[ENSiS @EdinSecrecy]

Our first online event! Please join us for any part, or all of it. In the last hour we'll invite ideas for new events or collaborations. Sign up on eventbrite

[LLCatEdinburgh @LLCatEdinburgh]

🤫 Have you heard? @EdinSecrecy is hosting a FREE and ONLINE symposium on #secrecy in literature and culture in December.

🎟️ Sign up now: https://t.co/EFchfhkGDr

[Penny Fielding @PenFielding]

About to talk about cold war spy fiction at this really exciting event.

By Other Means: The Cold War and U.S. Empire in Asia https://t.co/jxSLuuDJHr via @Wellesley

[ENSiS @EdinSecrecy]

Important event on the idea of proxy wars with ENSiS's @PenFielding talking about spy fiction. Hybrid event with zoom link: https://t.co/x0Ak0PVKKq

[Penny Fielding @PenFielding]

John le Carre's opening sentences are really something. Check out @spywrite's list of them. https://t.co/mDd0BejgTl

[ENSiS @EdinSecrecy]

Details here of our online symposium:
https://t.co/hQ2hki4M2x @LLCatEdinburgh

[ENSiS @EdinSecrecy]

Our online event on secrecy in literature and culture is open for booking! @LLCatEdinburgh

[LLCatEdinburgh @LLCatEdinburgh]

How was early 20th c. London portrayed by Russian foreign correspondents? Anna Vaninskaya’s new anthology London Through Russian Eyes, 1896-1914 (@boydellbrewer) reveals all. Join Anna and a great panel of speakers for the launch @QMHistory on 28 Nov https://t.co/4d0L4sJJX8

[ENSiS @EdinSecrecy]

The first meeting of our Theories of Secrecy reading group is 9 Nov at 4.00. We'll be discussing Kermode's "Genesis of Secrecy". DM for details.

[Joseph Oldham @paranoidstylist]

Reading the BBC Audience Research Report for Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy '79 and intrigued to find that apparently only 17% of the audience correctly guessed the identity of the mole before his unmasking. One of those things I never thought I'd get a statistic for!

[Spybrary @spybrary]

Tim Shipman of the Sunday Times rates and ranks his favorite 125, yes that’s 125 spy #thriller authors for Spybrary! Grab the list today and get @ShippersUnbound recommendations on his favourite work by the #author and which one to start with!

https://t.co/O8Rm8yFpF6