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A comprehensive study of the closure of communication in modern British history, right up to 1998. The text seeks to understand why secrets have been kept, and how the systems of control have been constructed and challenged over the past 160 years.

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This is the best book ever written on the history of official secrecy in Britian ... it ranges much wider than the Whitehall machine and investigates secrecy in other areas of British public life. It is this aspect of David Vincent's work that provides a range of perspective that is so often missing from other accounts of secrecy. * Clive Ponting, THES 3/3/00 *

Table of Contents
Bibliography ; Index ; 1. The Problem of Secrecy ; 2. Honourable Secrecy 1832-1870 ; 3. The Road to Regulation, 1870-1911 ; 4. Public Knowledge, 1911-1945 ; 5. Citizenship and Secrecy, 1945-1972 ; 6. Secrecy and Reform, 1972-1989 ; 7. The British Way ; Afterword

The Culture of Secrecy Britain 18321998

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      Publisher Clarendon Press
      Published 1 July 1999
      ISBN-13 9780198203070
      978-0198203070
      ISBN-10 0198203071
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      European history: medieval period, middle ages Ethical issues, topics and debates Political science and theory

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      A comprehensive study of the closure of communication in modern British history, right up to 1998. The text seeks to understand why secrets have been kept, and how the systems of control have been constructed and challenged over the past 160 years.

      Trade Review
      This is the best book ever written on the history of official secrecy in Britian ... it ranges much wider than the Whitehall machine and investigates secrecy in other areas of British public life. It is this aspect of David Vincent's work that provides a range of perspective that is so often missing from other accounts of secrecy. * Clive Ponting, THES 3/3/00 *

      Table of Contents
      Bibliography ; Index ; 1. The Problem of Secrecy ; 2. Honourable Secrecy 1832-1870 ; 3. The Road to Regulation, 1870-1911 ; 4. Public Knowledge, 1911-1945 ; 5. Citizenship and Secrecy, 1945-1972 ; 6. Secrecy and Reform, 1972-1989 ; 7. The British Way ; Afterword

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