Espionage

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

First World War

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

Podcast Website large Gill Bennett

The Zinoviev Letter conspiracy

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.

Second World War

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)

Second World War

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)

Second World War

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

Spies through the ages podcast

General ancient history

Spies through the ages

Podcast Website large Roland Philipps

Second World War

The mystery of Donald Maclean

Krystyna Skarbeck, also called Christine Granville

Second World War

My history hero: Krystyna Skarbek