Secret History of the Secret Service
September 5th, 2008 | 6 Comments
The roots of our modern-day intelligence agencies are to be found in the Victorian and Edwardian eras. Certainly espionage is one of the oldest professions (second to prostitution), and impressive spy networks were to be found in Elizabethan England under Francis Walsingham and Commonwealth England under John Thurloe, if not Catherine de Medici’s fabled coven [...]
