British historian Cooper’s biography of Elizabethan spymaster Francis Walsingham is as thrilling and suspenseful as any modern spy novel. Plumbing both primary and secondary sources, Cooper deftly ...

Elizabeth I, Sir Francis Walsingham, and the Birth of Modern Espionage By Stephen Budiansky Viking. 235 pp. $24.95 At her trial in 1586, the doomed Mary Queen of Scots challenged her chief accuser, ...

Rising from humble roots, Sir Francis Walsingham is a model of a certain type of Elizabethan figure, thriving at an innovative court that preferred service by men of talent rather than by the high ...

Sir Francis Walsingham is still remembered as one of Britain’s greatest spymasters. He is credited with ensuring the endurance of Queen Elizabeth I, to whose 45-year reign are attributed the ...

AS England’s first spymaster and an assiduously loyal public servant, Sir Francis Walsingham was devoted to keeping Elizabeth I in power by any means necessary, be it spreading misinformation, paying ...

Portumna Castle will host a talk on the woman who erected Ireland's greatest manor house of the early seventeenth century, on ...

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