NEW on the blog - @ashpercival-borley.bsky.social on the pioneering wartime intelligence officer Vera Atkins and the hidden role of secretaries in the secret war: soeandbritishculture.webspace.durham.ac.uk/2026/02/25/v...

Vera Atkins: a custodian of Secrets - THE SOE, COVERT ACTION, AND THE BRITISH CULTURAL IMAGINARY

Ash-Percival Borley on the pioneering wartime intelligence officer and the hidden role of secretaries in the secret war A woman in a tailored burgundy skirt-suit stepped off a bus on Baker Street, Lon...

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theconversation.com/doubts-about... I wrote a little something!

Doubts about women in combat don’t stand up to history

A person’s gender does not matter on the battlefield, and history agrees.

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Listen to @ashpercival-borley.bsky.social from our @durhamhistory.bsky.social discuss her work giving a voice to women in war as part of BBC Radio 4’s Start the Week, chatting with Lyse Doucet, Michaela Wrong and Shahidha Bari 📻👂👉https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m002jgnq

congratulations to our project PhD candidate @ashpercival-borley.bsky.social - BBC New Generation Thinker 2025. Here's Ash on BBC Radio 4 discussing the changing contours of war and peace in the 80 years since the end of the Second World War: www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

BBC Radio 4 - Free Thinking, Peace

In the week of VE Day, Matthew Sweet discusses what peace has meant since 1945.

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From Army to academia - PhD student and army veteran @ashpercival-borley.bsky.social is one of this year's BBC New Generation Thinkers. Find out more how research has opened a whole new career path after the military 👉 www.durham.ac.uk/research/cur...