Events

The Oxford Intelligence Group seminars are convened by Gwilym Hughes. For more information and to join this event, please email gwilym.hughes@nuffield.ox.ac.uk.

About the speakers

Peter Gillman joined the staff of the Sunday Times in 1971. He worked for the newspaper throughout the Harry Evans editorship and spent five years on the Insight investigative team, where he became its lead writer and deputy editor. He reported from hotspots such as Northern Ireland during the Troubles and Beirut during the Lebanon civil war. Peter left the Sunday Times staff after the Rupert Murdoch takeover in 1982 and freelanced for a wide variety of titles, including the Financial Times and The Observer. He has authored or co-authored some dozen books.

Emanuele Midolo is an investigative journalist with fifteen years of experience who has written in three languages for publications across the UK, France and Italy. He has won awards for his reporting and has been shortlisted multiple times for the British Journalism Awards, the Media Freedom Awards and the British Society of Magazine Editors Awards. He has worked at The Times and the Sunday Times since 2020 and lives in London.

Together, they have written the recently published ‘Murder in Cairo: Solving a Cold War Spy Mystery’. ‘Murder in Cairo’ represents the culmination of a decades-long investigation into the assassination of David Holden, the Sunday Times Middle East correspondent in December 1977, mere hours after he landed in the Egyptian capital. Gillman was part of the original group of Sunday Times journalists dispatched to the region by its famed editor Harold Evans immediately after Holden’s murder.