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Classified: Secrecy and the State in Modern Britain

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  • Follow this and additional works at: https://scholarworks.sjsu.edu/secrecyandsociety Part of the Defense and Security Studies Commons, Journalism Studies Commons, and the Other International and Area Studies Commons

  • In reading the introduction to Classified: Secrecy and the State in Modern Britain, I found Christopher Moran’s general discussion of government secrecy a tantalizing mix of WikiLeaks, British tendencies toward concealment, Fleet Street derring-do, narcissistic politicians, and the Official Secrets Act of Great Britain, originally passed in 1889 and revised in 1911. All this led me to hope that the book would be a treatise on state secrets prefaced by exploring the psychology behind English historian Peter Hennessy’s quote that Moran (2013) includes on the British character

  • “Secrecy,” explains Anthony Sampson, “is one of the British obsessions, like class, which seems to express a deeper psychological need, as if it were a substitute for the mystery of a religion

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Follow this and additional works at: https://scholarworks.sjsu.edu/secrecyandsociety Part of the Defense and Security Studies Commons, Journalism Studies Commons, and the Other International and Area Studies Commons. Classified: Secrecy and the State in Modern Britain Keywords Britain, D-Notice system, freedom of information, government secrecy, Official Secrets Act, security classification of information, UK security services

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