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In a kingdom recently divided by faith, Elizabeth I’s government turned to espionage to defend the Protestant crown. This is ...

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In the turbulent Republican Party of the late 1870s and early 1880s, Roscoe Conkling loomed as the hard-edged master of machine politics. Who was Conkling, and how did he ‘go to war’ with James ...

Borley Rectory was a large, red-brick house that stood in rural Essex. It was draughty and unkempt, and the subject of many local rumours. Nearby villagers referred to strange, ghostly figures that ...