Espionage

A portrait of Sir Walter Ralegh, a favourite of Queen Elizabeth I, c1588. (Photo by ACTIVE MUSEUM / Alamy Stock Photo)

“The rankest traitor in all England?” Walter Ralegh on trial

Staff hard at work at Bletchley Park. The people who worked here did so under conditions of utmost secrecy, and with little idea of how their work slotted into the grand scheme of things. (Photo by SSPL/Getty Images)

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Bletchley Park: Britain’s wartime intelligence factory

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Female spies of the Civil War era

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Britain’s foreign policy secrets

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The mystery of Donald Maclean

Alan M Turing and colleagues working on the Ferranti Mark I Computer, 1951.

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Alan Turing: The man, the enigma

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Krystyna Skarbeck, also called Christine Granville

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My history hero: Krystyna Skarbek

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President Kennedy holds a press conference shortly before the failed 'Bay of Pigs' invasion of Cuba. (Photo by Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images)

Bay of Pigs invasion: Kennedy’s Cuban catastrophe

Adolf Hitler in uniform. (Bettmann/Getty Images)

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The Third Reich’s nuclear programme: Churchill’s greatest wartime fear

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Britain’s secret wartime prison

Children at the Berlin Wall on Sebastianstrasse, Berlin - Kreuzberg - in around 1964. (Photo by Lehnartz/ullstein bild via Getty Images)

The secret history of the Berlin Wall

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British prime minister Clement Attlee reading a document in his office, 27 July 1946. (Photo by Haywood Magee/Picture Post/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Attlee’s secret war with Stalin

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Money, love and revenge: the motivations of spies through history

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A legendary spymaster