Tues., 23 March: "Spying for Queen & Country" Zoom lecture

Coming up on Tuesday, 23 March:

A lecture by Stephen Alford and Richard Dearlove

(Click here for the recorded video)

Spying for Queen Elizabeth I was very different from modern-day intelligence services - or was it? This lecture brings together historian Stephen Alford and Sir Richard Dearlove, former head of MI6, and will discuss Tudor spies and the modern-day secret service. This lecture celebrates 500 years since the birth of William Cecil, 1st Baron Burghley, an intelligence-gatherer for Elizabeth I across Europe, who also brought his son, Sir Robert Cecil, into the world of secret Elizabethan intelligence.

The lecture also looks at the use of secret communications like codes and cipher.