To the Russians, he was a goldmine. Philby was part of a group of five Cambridge University students, all of whom turned into Soviet spies after being ideologically drawn to communism in the 1930s.

Historians from the University of Cambridge recently unveiled a rare 13th-century document that depicts the stories of King Arthur and Merlin, with its preservation considered a miracle.

During the cold war, it sometimes seemed that the KGB was better at recruiting western spies than the west at running Soviet agents. This appeared to be embarrassingly true of the UK, home of the ...

Unredacted documents relating to the assassination of former President John F. Kennedy have revealed details about Anatoliy Golitsyn, a Soviet KGB defector described by former CIA counter ...

He eventually moved to the United Kingdom, where he worked as a scientist at Cambridge University while participating in left-wing political activism. Hall died in Britain in 1999 as a free man.

The trio, together with Kim Philby and John Cairncross, had all been recruited by the Russians while or after studying at Cambridge University in the 1930s.