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Frontcover -- Half Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Author's note -- Chapter 1: Blunt: the Gentleman Spy -- Chapter 2: Alger Hiss: Nixon's bête noire -- Chapter 3: Boulanger: Stalin's Villain -- Chapter 4: The Red Fox -- Chapter 5: Mroz: the death of a little captain -- Chapter 6: A tunnel to Berlin -- Chapter 7: Penkovsky: Luring Cuban Missiles -- Chapter 8: Nasser's Rockets -- Chapter 9: Lotz: saved by a little piece of skin... -- Chapter 10: The Spy Who Hid Behind Another -- Chapter 11: Cohen: the Damascus Hanging -- Chapter 12: Blackmailed by a false Resistor -- Chapter 13: Frauenknecht: The Mirage thief -- Chapter 14: Gabriele Gast: West Germany's Juliet -- Chapter 15: Pham Xuan Ân: America's False Friend -- Chapter 16: The Guillaume Affair: A Conspiracy against Brandt -- Chapter 17: Espionage, Science and Conscience -- Chapter 18: Pollard: the Spy amongst friends -- Chapter 19: The Polyakov Mystery -- Chapter 20: 'Baba's' box -- Chapter 21: Yurchenko: false defector and genuine spy -- Chapter 22: Aldrich Ames: the spy who hunted spies -- Chapter 23: Hanssen: the man who never laughed -- (Endnotes)

Editors' Introduction / Robert Snape, Helen Pussard, Matthew Constantine -- Hidden History - Holidays at Home during the Second World War: A Case Study of Blackburn and District / Judith Moss -- A 20th Century 'Vernacular Landscape': The Significance of Allotments as a Leisure Experience / David Kitchener -- What a Performance: Teenage Working-Class Girls' Leisure in the Interwar Years / Katherine Milcoy -- Scrapbooks, Albums and Notebooks: An Act of Leisure, A Document of Leisure, a Labour of Leisure / Carson and Miller -- 'Museums of Sound': Collecting and Curating Everyday Popular Music Experiences / Marion Leonard and Robert Knifton -- Representation and Absence: Memories of Play and Leisure / Theresa Wilkie -- The Archer Street Boys: An Examination of Class, Ethnicity and Social Capital amongst Musicians, and their Contribution to the Economy of the London Jazz and Dance Band Scene in the Inter War Period / Ged Seacombe -- Rational Recreation and Leisure for Children: the Band of Hope in the Twentieth Century / Annemarie McAllister -- Vision versus Tradition in an Imaginary Community: Rugby League, Super Leagues and the Fans' Identification with "the Game" in the North of England 1993-1996 / Karl Spracklen -- Homemade Gadgets and Makeshift Darkrooms: Skilled Amateur Photography in 1930s Britain / Juliet Baillie

This timely history explores the entry, reception and resettlement of refugees across twentieth-century Britain. Focusing on four cohorts of refugees - Jewish and other refugees from Nazism; Hungarians in 1956; Ugandan Asians expelled by Idi Amin; and Vietnamese 'boat people' who arrived in the wake of the fall of Saigon - Becky Taylor deftly integrates refugee history with key themes in the history of modern Britain. She thus demonstrates how refugees' experiences, rather than being marginal, were emblematic of some of the principal developments in British society. Arguing that Britain's reception of refugees was rarely motivated by humanitarianism, this book reveals the role of Britain's international preoccupations, anxieties and sense of identity; and how refugees' reception was shaped by voluntary efforts and the changing nature of the welfare state. Based on rich archival sources, this study offers a compelling new perspective on changing ideas of Britishness and the place of 'outsiders' in modern Britain.