Richard James Aldrich (born 7 December 1961) is a British political scientist and a historian of espionage who has written intensively about intelligence and security communities.

Life

Since September 2007, he has been a professor of

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at the Department of Politics and International Studies,

University of Warwick The University of Warwick ( ; abbreviated as ''Warw.'' in post-nominal letters) is a public research university on the outskirts of Coventry between the West Midlands and Warwickshire, England. The university was founded in 1965 as part of ...

. He was a professor at the School of Politics and International Relations,

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and was co-editor of the journal ''

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'' for eight years. In 1990 Aldrich gained his PhD from Corpus Christi College,

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Works

Monographs

*''The Black Door Lib/E: Spies, Secret Intelligence, and British Prime Ministers'' (William the 4th, 2020) *''GCHQ: The Uncensored Story of Britain's Most Secret Intelligence Agency'' (HarperPress, 2010) *''Intelligence and the War against Japan: Britain, America and the Politics of Secret Service'' (Cambridge University Press, 2008) *''The Faraway War: Personal Diaries of the Second World War in Asia and the Pacific'' (Transworld Publishers Limited, 2006) *''Witness To War: Diaries Of The Second World War In Europe And The Middle East'' (Doubleday, 2004) *''The Hidden Hand: Britain, America, and Cold War Secret Intelligence'' (John Murray Press, 2001) *''Intelligence and the War Against Japan: Britain, America and the Politics of Secret Service'' (Cambridge University Press, 2000) *''Espionage, Security and Intelligence in Britain, 1945-1970'' (Manchester University Press, 1998) *''The Key to the South: Britain, the United States, and Thailand During the Approach of the Pacific War, 1929-1942'' (Oxford University Press, 1993) *''British Intelligence, Strategy and the Cold War, 1945-51''(Taylor & Francis, 1992)

Co-authored books

*'' The Secret Royals: Spying and the Crown, from Victoria to Diana'' (Atlantic Books, 2021) with Rory Cormac *''Secret Intelligence: A Reader'' (Routledge, 2019) with Christopher Andrew and Wesley K. Wark *''Spying on the World: The Declassified Documents of the Joint Intelligence Committee, 1936-2013'' (Edinburgh University Press, 2014) with Rory Cormac and Michael S. Goodman *''The Clandestine Cold War in Asia, 1945-65: Western Intelligence, Propaganda and Special Operations'' (Taylor & Francis, 2000) with Ming-Yeh Rawnsley and Gary D. Rawnsley *''Intelligence, Defence and Diplomacy: British Policy in the Post-War World'' (Taylor & Francis, 1994) with Michael F. Hopkins

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Aldrich, Richard J. Living people 1961 births People from Rochdale Fellows of the Royal Historical Society Alumni of the University of Cambridge British political scientists 20th-century British historians 21st-century British historians British historians of espionage