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MI5: Official Secrets – Online Curator Tour

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The National Archives, The National Archives, Kew, London, TW9 4DU
MI5 Official Secrets – Online Curator Tour

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Join exhibition curator, Mark Dunton, for an online tour of our current exhibition, MI5: Official Secrets at The National Archives.

For most of its history, MI5 has worked almost entirely in secret. Operating in the shadows enabled the intelligence agency to deal effectively with covert threats and to protect its agents, people and operations.

But in the 1990s, everything changed. For the first time, MI5 publicly named its Director General. It advertised for recruits in a national newspaper. And it began to release files to The National Archives.

Discover an ever-changing world of subversion and espionage over MI5’s 115-year old history in a ground-breaking exhibition that will take you behind the scenes of one of Britain’s most iconic institutions.

This online event will last...Read More

About

Join exhibition curator, Mark Dunton, for an online tour of our current exhibition, MI5: Official Secrets at The National Archives.

For most of its history, MI5 has worked almost entirely in secret. Operating in the shadows enabled the intelligence agency to deal effectively with covert threats and to protect its agents, people and operations.

But in the 1990s, everything changed. For the first time, MI5 publicly named its Director General. It advertised for recruits in a national newspaper. And it began to release files to The National Archives.

Discover an ever-changing world of subversion and espionage over MI5’s 115-year old history in a ground-breaking exhibition that will take you behind the scenes of one of Britain’s most iconic institutions.

This online event will last approximately one hour comprised of a pre-recorded film followed by a live audience Q&A with exhibition curator, Mark Dunton.

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Season 28 May 2025
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Wednesday19:30

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