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Espionage

Podcast Website Large Helen Fry - WWII Intelligence

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Secret listeners

Henry Hemming.

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Fake news in World War Two

Josephine Baker lounges on a tiger skin around the time she starred in La Revue Nègre

Jospehine Baker: the hidden depths of Jazz Age icon

Margaretha Geertruida Zelle called Mata Hari (Photo by Apic/Getty Images)

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Mata Hari: exotic dancer, femme fatale, traitor and spy

(Photo by Westend61/Roman Märzinger/Getty Images)

The Zinoviev Letter conspiracy

Wrens worked as code-breakers at Bletchley Park.

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Female codebreakers: the women of Bletchley Park

John Hardyng, a royal spy and cartographer who witnessed some of the 15th century's most extraordinary events. (Illustration by Sue Gent for BBC History Magazine)

John Hardyng: Henry V’s secret agent

British spy writer Ian Fleming at his home, Goldeneye, in Jamaica. (Photo by Harry Benson/Express Newspapers/Getty Images)

The man behind James Bond

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

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

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Alan Turing: The man, the enigma

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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Alan Turing was not the only star of Bletchley Park

Code-breaking personnel at Bletchley Park, 1943. (Photo by Bletchley Park Trust/SSPL/Getty Images)

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The evolution of British code-breaking

A photograph of Bletchley Park codebreaker Alan Turing (1912–54). (Photo by Fine Art Images/Heritage Images/Getty Images)

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7 things you didn’t know about Bletchley Park and Alan Turing

Podcast Website large Nadine Akkerman

Female spies of the Civil War era

Podcast Website large Rory Cormac

Britain’s foreign policy secrets