• The Spy Who Loved Nature: Maxwell Knight’s Legacy Beyond MI5

    The Spy Who Loved Nature: Maxwell Knight’s Legacy Beyond MI5

    Inspired by Simon King’s talk at The Maxwell Knight symposium. In the clandestine corridors of MI5, Maxwell Knight, the original ‘M’, was a living legend. His secret intelligence service prowess during the inter-war years and WWII is well-documented, with a flair for counter-subversion that helped infiltrate the British fascist movement and prevent Nazi sympathiser espionage…

  • World Pheasant Association cover the Maxwell Knight Symposium in WPA News

    World Pheasant Association cover the Maxwell Knight Symposium in WPA News

    The World Pheasant Association’s WPA News, Spring 2019, includes a lengthy report on the Maxwell Knight Symposium (MKS) and looks super. We’d like to thank www.pheasant.org.uk for including the three photos (credit Margaret E Cooper) and allowing FFON to share a snippet of their spring newsletter here. Administrators at the WPA have also been kind enough…

  • John and Margaret Cooper would like to express their personal thanks to Simon King

    John and Margaret Cooper would like to express their personal thanks to Simon King

    “Our friend Simon King has been a constant source of encouragement and support in the recent investigations into the life and work of Maxwell Knight (MK). Simon offered to take, temporarily to store, and then to catalogue, the contents of Maxwell Knight’s filing cabinet.  This was an enormous undertaking; the undertaking was greatly expedited by the enthusiastic…

  • Thanks for your encouragement and support for the Maxwell Knight Symposium

    Thanks for your encouragement and support for the Maxwell Knight Symposium

    A message from John E Cooper, Margaret E Cooper and Simon H King:  Thank you for your encouragement and support for the Maxwell Knight Symposium (MKS). The day went well and the audience participation and encouragement was fantastic and we hope you enjoyed it. If you couldn’t attend the event, you can get a good feel for the…