An Espionage Study Day, Friday 20 November, 10am – 4pm, London

NEW DATE due to popular demand... Come along to the Spectator offices for a full inside briefing on spies, spying and Cold War espionage, followed by a buffet lunch and a minibus tour of London’s spy sites. Your expert guide is Dr Boris Volodarsky of the London School of Economics. Now a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society, Boris was an officer in the GRU Spetsnaz (Soviet military intelligence) before travelling west as communism collapsed and taking up a second career as a historian specialising in espionage and secret intelligence history. Dr Volodarsky, whose books include The KGB Poison Factory: from Lenin to Litvinenko, has expert inside knowledge of Vladimir Putin’s lethal use of poisons and of Stalin’s spies and spycraft during the Cold War. This is a unique and unmissable event for anyone curious about the true role played behind the headlines by intelligence and espionage in the making of the modern world. Limited to 16 places. We will email you nearer the time with a reminder, more details and to request any dietaries etc.