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Booking tickets

If you are a member of staff or student at the University of Edinburgh, you can book a place through the university Event Booking system here:

If you are a member of the public, sign up for each day at Eventbrite here:

and/or

About the Event

The full Spy Week programme

Edinburgh Spy Week is organised by the University of Edinburgh, the Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities, the National Library of Scotland, the Edinburgh Filmhouse, and Blackwell’s Bookshop.

The week begins with Dame Stella Rimington in Conversation with Prof Penny Fielding Date and time: Monday 11 April, 5.30pm-7pm Venue: 50 George Square Lecture Theatre
What roles have women played in spy fiction, and how do they compare to the realities of women’s role in the history of espionage? Dame Stella Rimington, the first female director general of MI5 and author of the acclaimed Liz Carlisle spy fiction series, will discuss the questions in conversation with Professor Penny Fielding, Grierson Chair of English at the University of Edinburgh.

The week concludes with: Writing Spy Lives (A Panel Discussion with Jeremy Duns and Ben MacIntyre) Date and time: Friday 15 April, 5.30pm-7pm Venue: Project Room, 50 George Square
How to write the biography of a spy – a subject who, by profession, must often conceal a true identity and fabricate fake ones in the line of duty? What challenges and opportunities are there for biographers seeking to uncover the story of the lives of spies involved in secret, and politically sensitive, international affairs? These and other questions raised by writing spy lives will be explored by spy novelist and biographer Jeremy Duns (Dead Drop: The True Story of Oleg Penkovsky and the Cold War’s Most Dangerous Operation (2013)), and historian, journalist and biographer Ben MacIntyre (Spy Among Friends: Kim Philby and the Great Betrayal (2014)).

For the full programme of Spy Week guest speakers and activities please click here: http://www.spyweek.llc.ed.ac.uk/
Most events (aside from the films) are free, but ticketed via Eventbrite (see the event pages on the above website).

Wikipedia editathon for Spy Week 2016: Women in Espionage and Spy Fiction

For this particular event, the University of Edinburgh’s Information Services and Wikimedia UK are organising an editathon focused on Women in Espionage to celebrate Spy Week 2016 on 13-14 April 2016 near the other Spy Week venues in Teaching Studio LG.07, David Hume Tower Building, George Square, Edinburgh.Click here for Google Maps.

You can attend on one day or both days. Full training will be provided both days so new editors are very welcome to attend. If you have had Wikipedia training before, feel free to either start editing immediately on arrival or arriving a little later to skip the training portion of the afternoon.

This Wikimedia event forms part of Spy Week 2016 as a day of celebration which helps people learn about the achievements of women in espionage, inspiring others and creating new role models for young and old alike. Did you know that approximately only 16% of the biographies on Wikipedia relate to notable women? The aim of our editathon is to add to and improve the coverage of individuals, events and resources related to women in espionage.

Come along to learn about how Wikipedia works and contribute a greater understanding of the role of women in espionage!

Hitchcock secret agent

Participants

Add your name here to the bottom of the page if you are planning to come along or participating remotely.

How do I prepare?

Programme

  • 2.00-2.10pm Registration, housekeeping
  • 2.10-2.15pm Introduction and welcome.
  • 2.15-3.00pm Wikipedia training.
  • 3pm-4.30pm Research, editing/creating the Wikipedia article.
  • 4.30pm-5.00pm Close.

(Refreshments available throughout the afternoon.)

Trainers

Ewan McAndrew, Wikimedian in Residence at University of Edinburgh

On the day

As mentioned, you will need your own laptop (or tablet) as desktop computers will not be provided in the teaching studio. A limited number of laptop computers can be borrowed from the university library so please contact me at [email protected] if you would like to attend but would like to borrow a machine for the afternoon and I can direct you how to do this.

Hit list of articles to be created

Helpful updates could be as simple as: Making sure reference links are still appropriate and functional; Adding new inline citations/references; Adding a photo; Adding an infobox; Adding data to more fields in an existing infobox; Creating headings; Adding categories; etc.

The following is a small sample of topics and women to work on, with thanks to Megalibrarygirl for getting the ball rolling. Feel free to come up with your own ideas!

This is a list under development of missing articles on women who are (or have been) notable as spies or espionage. Some have been covered in the other wiki languages but many have not yet been covered anywhere on Wikipedia.

All are welcome to add names to the list which is intended to serve as a basis for creating new articles in this important but somewhat neglected sector on the English Wikipedia.

Chief Operator Grace Banker receiving the Distinguished Service Medal

United Kingdom

United States

Belgium

Germany

France

Italy

Spain

The Netherlands

Articles needing work

HelloGirls
Lilian Rolfe
Noor Inayat Khan

Looking for ideas?

These two Wikidata lists provide a starting point for where to look on Wikipedia for articles that could be created or improved. Italicised names on the list are pages that don't yet exist.

  1. Spies from the UK
  2. List of female spies and male spies (1800-2000)

Additional ideas can be found from the following Wikiproject pages & Category searches:

  1. Wikipedia:WikiProject_Women_in_Red/Spies
  2. Wikipedia:Requested_articles/Arts_and_entertainment/Literature
  3. WikiProject Women in Red
  4. Wikipedia:WikiProject_Women_writers/Missing_articles
  5. WikiProject Espionage
  6. Category:Female_wartime_spies
  7. Category:Stub-Class Women's History articles
  8. Category:Stub-Class Women writers articles
  9. Category:Female resistance members of World War II
  10. Category:People by intelligence agency
  11. Category:Special Operations Executive personnel

There's also an interesting list of literature on spies from the CIA which contains the names of both male and female authors.(With thanks to Ipigott for providing this link.)

Sources

Physical resources which will be made available will include:

  1. Sisterhood of spies : the women of the OSS / Elizabeth P. McIntosh.
  2. The Cicero spy affair : German access to British secrets in World War II / Richard Wires.
  3. The women who lived for danger : the women agents of SOE in the Second World War / Marcus Binney.
  4. The Amerasia spy case : prelude to McCarthyism / Harvey Klehr & Ronald Radosh.
  5. Gentleman spy : the life of Allen Dulles / Peter Grose.
  6. Intelligence studies in Britain and the US : historiography since 1945 / edited by Christopher R. Moran and Christopher J. Murphy.
  7. The hidden hand : Britain, America and Cold War secret intelligence / Richard J. Aldrich.
  8. The dangerous trade : spies, spymasters and making of Europe / edited by Daniel Szechi.
  9. British spy fiction and the end of empire / Sam Goodman.
  10. Early Cold War spies : the espionage trials that shaped American politics / John Earl Haynes, Harvey Klehr.
  11. Spying on the world : the declassified documents of the Joint Intelligence Committee, 1936-2013 / [edited by] Richard J. Aldrich, Rory Cormac and Michael S. Goodman.
  12. Open secret : the autobiography of the former Director-General of MI5 / Stella Rimington.

Talkpage templates for articles

  • If the woman was born before 1950 use: {{WikiProject Women's history}}
  • If the woman was born after 1950 use: {{WikiProject Women}}
  • Add to WikiProject Esponiage: {{WikiProject Espionage |class= |importance= }}
  • Add to WikiProject Military history:{{WPMILHIST|class= }}

Friendly Space Policy

Please note that we have a friendly space policy and do not tolerate harassment of any attendees. Please notify the event organiser if you feel unsafe during the event.

Disability Access

David Hume Tower: Guide to Access.pdf

Want to learn more about editing?

If you want to learn more about editing before you come, try these introductions:
• Wikipedia:Tutorial
• Help:Editing - traditional wiki mark up help
• Wikipedia:VisualEditor/User guide - new Visual Editor help

Outcomes

TBD.

We Can Edit

Sign Up Here!

Prior to the event:

  1. RSVP: [email protected]
  2. Do you have a Wikipedia User Name?
    No? Create a Wikipedia account
    Yes? Go to Step #3
  3. Sign up! Add your Wikipedia User Name to this section by clicking the blue button below (follow instructions). Your name will be added to the bottom of this page
Don't worry! If you haven't edited Wikipedia before and don't have a Wikipedia User Name yet, we will help you on the day of the event! And remember to have fun!
To sign up for this event: Log in or create an account.

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