Our Guest Speakert this month is the historian, Dr. Helen Fry. Dr Fry has written over 25 books on the Second World War depicting British intelligence, espionage and wartime eavesdropping, and has appeared in numerous TV documentaries about these subjects including the D-Day anniversaries.
Dr Fry will speak about her books including her latest highly acclaimed and award-winning work: “Women in Intelligence: the Hidden History of Two World Wars”. Dr Fry, in this work, provides a holistic view of the rich and varied intelligence and espionage work women undertook as civilians and in uniform, and how women’s contribution to military intelligence at Bletchley Park and Whitehall kept the British war machine running. The work includes new evidence about the celebrated Edith Cavell, the British nurse executed by the Germans in 1915 for alleged espionage in relation to the help she gave British soldiers in the First World War.
In 2022, Dr. Fry was recognised as a Woman of Achievement at the Women of the Year Lunch Awards, and in 2023 she received the Lifetime Achievement Award at Jewish Military History and Education. Dr. Fry is an ambassador for the Military Intelligence Museum, a trustee of the Friends of the Intelligence Corps and a trustee of the Medmenham Collection.
9:30am – 10:45am: Registration, tea/coffee, Activity Leader tables;
10:50am: Members invited to take a seat in the auditorium;
11:00am: Introductions;
11:10am: Dr. Fry
12:05pm: Q&A
12:20pm: President’s announcements;
12:30pm: Meeting conclusion;
12:45pm: Hospitality lunch (details tbc).
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