In stock at @blackwells.bsky.social Oxford: #InvisibleAgents & #Spycraft ! I’m missing #ElizabethStuart Queen of Hearts though. Stuart Britain is more than Charles I & the biography I wrote about his boar-spearing, witty sister, still mocked as the #WinterQueen , is a must-read

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#InvisibleAgents #Spycraft #SummerReading 👇

Could anyone be trusted in Tudor and Stuart England? ‘Spies, you are lights in state, but of base stuff,/ Who, when you’ve burnt yourselves down to the snuff,/ Stink, and are thrown away.’ Ben Jonson likened his fellow secret agents to a tallow candle: ...

Rocking review of #Spycraft in the @spectator
! ‘A companion piece to [...] #InvisibleAgents [...], it wears the weight of its impeccable learning even more lightly, as it canters through forgeries, codes, disguises, invisible inks & poisons'. spectator.co.uk/article/coul...
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