Events

Research Seminar

‘The Special Operations Executive and the British Cultural Imaginary: A Work in Progress Seminar’, Durham University, 26 February 2025 – public event, featuring contributions from Ashleigh Percival-Borley, Russell Shanks, James Smith, Guy Woodward

Talks, lectures, media appearances

Ashleigh Percival-Borley

Guest on Free Thinking episode on ‘Peace’, BBC Radio 4, 9 May 2025

Selected as New Generation Thinker 2025 – shaping public understanding of history through BBC Radio 4 and AHRC collaboration

‘“An Appetite for Action”: the impact of popular culture on SOE agent’s personal testimonies’, National Intelligence History Conference, Bletchley Park, 20-22 November 2024

‘Reclaiming my story: A woman veteran’s journey’, TEDxUniversity of Essex, 9 October 2024

NATO Joint Force Command Brunssum Women’s Empowerment Day, keynote speaker talking about how using the women of the SOE as a case study will help modern militaries better deal with the institutional challenges still faced by women female soldiers, Brunssum, Netherlands, 26 August 2024

Guest on Pick of the Week with Tessa Dunlop, BBC Radio 4, 9 June 2024

Guest on BBC Radio Five Live with Dan Snow, talking about SOE and Intelligence leading up to D-Day, 6 June 2024

Event at IWM Churchill War Rooms with Tessa Dunlop on Women in WW2, 4 June 2024

Various BBC radio and Sky News contributions, ongoing

Russell Shanks

Lightning talk at Games Studies: Now, Next, Northeast, Durham University, 26 September 2025

‘The Special Operations Executive and Digital Wargaming’, poster presentation, National Intelligence History Conference, Bletchley Park, 20-22 November 2024

Guy Woodward

‘The Special Operations Executive in post-war British cinema’, Society for the History of War conference: Cultures of War and Violence, University of Potsdam, Germany, 27-28 November 2025

‘The Legacies of the SOE in post-war British Culture and Society’, Society for the History of War conference: Legacies of War and Violence, University of Cyprus, Nicosia, Cyprus, 28-29 November 2024