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This late 16th-century portrait by John de Critz depicts Sir Francis Walsingham (c.1532–1590), Queen Elizabeth I’s spymaster. A shrewd diplomat and master of espionage, Walsingham built the intelligence network that helped safeguard the Tudor state from plots and foreign threats.

Elizabeth I’s shadowy spy network was tasked with uncovering secret conspiracies. Here’s what it found

The librarian who stole KGB secrets.

Shea Whigham as Roscoe Conkling in the Netflix series Death by Lightning, beside a portrait of the real Conkling.

Who was Roscoe Conkling? The real story of how US politics’ ‘spoils system’ met its match

Episode 1 The VIKING king of England: the story of King Cnut and the Danish conquest of 1016.

On 27 May 1954, Sir Winston Churchill addresses a meeting of the Women’s Conservative Association. Nearly a decade after leading Britain through the Second World War, the prime minister remained a commanding figure in British politics and public life.

Second World War

It was Operation Unthinkable: Churchill's "impossible" plan to start World War 3

Nellie Bly: life of the week.

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