The Queen's Agent

2011-09-26

Biography & Autobiography

Author: John Cooper

Publisher: Faber & Faber

ISBN: 0571283179

Category: Biography & Autobiography

Page: 400

View: 3306

Elizabeth I came to the throne at a time of insecurity and unrest. Rivals threatened her reign; England was a Protestant island, isolated in a sea of Catholic countries. Spain plotted an invasion, but Elizabeth's Secretary, Francis Walsingham, was prepared to do whatever it took to protect her. He ran a network of agents in England and Europe who provided him with information about invasions or assassination plots. He recruited likely young men and 'turned' others. He encourage Elizabeth to make war against the Catholic Irish rebels, with extreme brutality and oversaw the execution of Mary Queen of Scots. The Queen's Agent is a story of secret agents, cryptic codes and ingenious plots, set in a turbulent period of England's history. It is also the story of a man devoted to his queen, sacrificing his every waking hour to save the threatened English state.

Catalogue of the Lansdowne Manuscripts

Author: British Museum Dept. of Manuscripts British Museum

Publisher: Georg Olms Verlag

ISBN: 9783487404875

Category:

Page: 706

View: 8421

Calendar of State Papers, Domestic Series, of the Reign of Charles I, 1628 - 1629

1882

Author: William Douglas Hamilton

Publisher: N.A

ISBN: N.A

Category:

Page: 788

View: 6944

Annals of the Reformation and Establishment of Religion, and Other Various Occurrences in the Church of England, During Queen Elizabeth's Happy Reign: pt. 1 Annals of the reformation of religion, and affairs of the church in this kingdom of England; From the twelfth year of the reign of Queen Elizabeth to the twenty-third

1824

England

Author: John Strype

Publisher: N.A

ISBN: N.A

Category: England

Page: N.A

View: 8264

Venice's Secret Service

2019-10-24

Intelligence service

Author: Ioanna Iordanou

Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

ISBN: 0198791313

Category: Intelligence service

Page: 278

View: 3890

Venice's Secret Service is the untold and arresting story of the world's earliest centrally-organised state intelligence service. Long before the inception of SIS and the CIA, in the period of the Renaissance, the Republic of Venice had masterminded a remarkable centrally-organised state intelligence organisation that played a pivotal role in the defence of the Venetian empire. Housed in the imposing Doge's Palace and under the direction of the Council of Ten, the notorious governmental committee that acted as Venice's spy chiefs, this 'proto-modern' organisation served prominent intelligence functions including operations (intelligence and covert action), analysis, cryptography and steganography, cryptanalysis, and even the development of lethal substances. Official informants and amateur spies were shipped across Europe, Anatolia, and Northern Africa, conducting Venice's stealthy intelligence operations. Revealing a plethora of secrets, their keepers, and their seekers, Venice's Secret Service explores the social and managerial processes that enabled their existence and that furnished the foundation for an extraordinary intelligence organisation created by one of the early modern world's most cosmopolitan states.