Judith Lewis and Helen Fry
Country Houses at War

Judith S Lewis was born in Patchogue, NY, and went on to earn her BA at Vassar College, and her Ph.D in History at the Johns Hopkins University. She is the Edna Hoffman Bowman Presidential Professor of History, Emerita, at the University of Oklahoma, where she was the first woman to earn tenure in the Dept of History. She is the author of In the Family Way: Childbearing in the British Aristocracy, 1760-1860, and Sacred to Female Patriotism: Gender, Class and Politics in Late Georgian Britain. Her latest book is The Country House at War: A Story of Loss, Reinvention, and the Birth of a New Britain.

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.