Espionage

Krystyna Skarbeck, also called Christine Granville

History heroMichael Morpurgo chooses Krystyna Skarbek (1908–1952).

Rjukan Hydro Plant

Spying in WW2: how wartime espionage was just as dramatic as fiction.

Sir Anthony Blunt, British art historian and Surveyor of the Queen's Pictures

Who was Sir Anthony Blunt and the Cambridge Five? Plus 4 others who spied for the Soviets

Secret listeners.

Henry Hemming.

Fake news in World War Two.

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

First World War

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

(Photo by Westend61/Roman Märzinger/Getty Images)

The Zinoviev Letter conspiracy.

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.

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

The evolution of British code-breaking.

Female spies of the Civil War era.

Britain’s foreign policy secrets.

Spies through the ages podcast

Spies through the ages.

The mystery of Donald Maclean.

Bay of Pigs invasion: Kennedy’s Cuban catastrophe.

Adolf Hitler in uniform. (Bettmann/Getty Images)

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

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

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.

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

The LibraryA legendary spymaster.

The USS Liberty arriving for repairs following the attack by Israeli warplanes and motor torpedo boats

Why did Israel attack the USS Liberty?.

Spying on the king: when MI5 targeted Edward VIII and Wallis Simpson.

Adolf Hitler is welcomed by supporters at Nuremberg, 1933. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Enigma before Bletchley: the German spies who betrayed Hitler to steal codes.

Our Kind of Traitor: an interview with former MI6 intelligence officer Nicholas Anderson

Bletchley Park

WW2 espionage: The spies who surprised me.

World War Two spies and an extraordinary naturalist.

5 things you didn’t know about the secret spying arm of the Post Office.

A portrait of Ian Lancaster Fleming, the creator of the character James Bond

The spy who loved Jamaica.

The spies of Queen Elizabeth I.