Speaker Series: Jill Pearlman POSTPONED TO 2023

This event cancelled due to covid concerns. The Club wishes everyone good health

“The Spies Who Came into the Modernist Fold: The Covert Life in London’s Lawn Road Flats”

Bowdoin Professor of Environmental Studies Jill Pearlman casts new light on a 1934 modernist landmark in London designed by architect Wells Coates for clients Jack and Molly Pritchard. With the gradual opening of intelligence archives in Britain and Russia since the fall of the Iron Curtain, it has come to light that between 1935 and 1942, four prominent Soviet spies made their home in the building. Her talk explores the reasons why the spies chose the Flats as their place of residence. Based on extensive research in both intelligence and architectural archives, she will show that the design, the scheme for modern living, and the setting of the Lawn Road Flats offered the Soviet agents a residence that allowed them to carry out their espionage work.