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Lucy Wooding: Early Modern Espionage, 12 September 2024
All His Spies: The Secret World of Robert Cecil
by Stephen Alford.
Allen Lane, 424 pp., £30, July,978 0 241 42347 9 Show More
by Stephen Alford.
Allen Lane, 424 pp., £30, July,
Spycraft: Tricks and Tools of the Dangerous Trade from Elizabeth I to the Restoration
by Nadine Akkerman and Pete Langman.
Yale, 317 pp., £20, June,978 0 300 26754 9 Show More
by Nadine Akkerman and Pete Langman.
Yale, 317 pp., £20, June,
“... blinded with the self-love of your own counsel in holding together of this parliament’. Even the king who owed him so much wasn’t convinced that Cecil held the key to the political process. Administrative skill wasn’t everything in early modern politics. Among those who conceived of the political process in very different terms was Cecil’s sometime ... ”