This talk explores the subject of secret police surveillance in communist Czechoslovakia in the 1980s. Prof. Cornwall draws on his own surveillance file, asking why, when and where he was being followed and assessed by the StB (the Czechoslovak security police). He then widens the focus to evaluate the general methods of StB information-gathering during the last years of communism.

Tickets £15 including a glass of wine.

Image clockwise from top left, observation post © Pudelek; target image © Francis Flinch; silhouette © M. P. Ball; all preceding images from Creative Commons Wikimedia; 1st May parade © Mark Cornwall.