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Conventionally, spies are men; think of James Bond or Graeme Greene’s George Smiley. But in World War II’s desperate struggle […]

Britain’s treason legislation dates back to the Treason Act of 1351, and bizarrely, it remains on the statute books to

You might think that the lives of royals are highly enviable, what with all the palaces and the gilded lifestyles

Between 1788 and 1869, around 164,000 convicted criminals were packed off to Australia under the terms of the British Government’s

At the end of World War II in Europe in May 1945, there were plenty of Nazis who had cause

So, what was going on in the world a century ago, in 1925? We’ve scoured the archives to find ten

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