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Book SynopsisA 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 ReviewThis 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 ContentsBibliography ; 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
