The Defence of the Realm revealed by Peter Wright decades before in Spycatcher), as well as noting how many of Wilson's MP's were spying for the Soviet bloc. The book's title was derived from MI5's Latin motto, "Regnum Defende". Historian Keith Jeffery was commissioned to write a similar authorised history on the Secret Intelligence Service (MI6) for release in 2010. The book received generally positive reviews from major newspapers. "The Daily Telegraph" called it "magisterial, authoritative, balanced, readable ... full of wry humour and with an eye for the absurd", declaring that "MI5 could not have wanted a better historian than him. This book is
Peter Wright (ceramicist) of Applied Art Gallery in 2003. Peter Wright (ceramicist) Peter Wright (30 December 1919 - 20 June 2003) was a British potter and sculptor. Wright was born in Hitchin, Hertfordshire in 1919 and was brought up in Enfield Town, north London. After army service in World War Two, he attended Hornsey College of Art from 1946 to 1950, learning graphics but developing his interest in clay. After Hornsey, he was appointed as a teacher of art at Sutton Coldfield College of Further Education. In 1954 he opened his own studio in Monkton Combe, just outside Bath, before relocating to Gloucester