Helen Fry and Hanna Diamond
Spy and Heroine

Helen Fry has authored and edited over 25 books covering the social history of the Second World War, including British Intelligence and the secret war, espionage, and spies, as well as MI9 escape and evasion. She is the foremost authority on the “secret listeners” who worked at special eavesdropping sites operated by British Intelligence during WWII. Helen is the official biographer of MI6 spymaster, Colonel Thomas Joseph Kendrick. She has also extensively written about the 10,000 Germans who fought for Britain during WWII. Helen has appeared in a number of documentaries and has provided advisory services for TV and drama. She also appears regularly in media interviews and podcasts. Helen is an ambassador for the National Centre for Military Intelligence (NCMI) and serves as a trustee of both the Friends of the Intelligence Corps Museum and the Medmenham Collection. She works in London.

Hanna Diamond is professor of French History at Cardiff University. She did both her undergraduate degree and PhD at the University of Sussex. She spent several years teaching and researching in France before taking up a lectureship at the University of Bath in 1993. She was appointed to a chair at Cardiff University in 2014. An expert on the social and cultural history of France during the Second World War, she has published widely on the period including, Fleeing Hitler: France 1940 (2007) and Women and the Second World War in France 1939-48 (1999). She regularly advises on media and film production as well as working with museums notably the Musée de la Libération de Paris where she co-curated an exhibition on the French exodus of 1940.