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Podcast: British History: Royals, Rebels, and Romantics
Episode: Tudor Spies: A Special Repeat Journey to the Heart of Elizabethan Spiery (episode 28)
Description: November 2020 seems like the perfect time to travel once more to a time of intercepted and hidden messages, foreign interference, transfer of power, betrayal, and...spies!Travel back in time to the birthplace of modern espionage: the court of Queen Elizabeth I and sneak into the world of Tudor Spies!The chaos in religious policy and its political implications laid the foundation for treachery, betrayal, and deception. And one element made this time, particularly as we move into the reign of Elizabeth I, a hotbed of what was then called “spiery”: that element was literacy. Peop...