Mary II

William III, by Godfried Schalcken, c.1692-97. The new monarch’s regime made use of an informal espionage network to secure itself against plots in favour of the deposed Stuarts. Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam.

Spycraft and the Glorious Revolution

In the era of the early modern ‘secret state’, two notorious brothers set up an elaborate intelligence network, managing a vast array of spies and informers watchful for Jacobite plots against Britain.

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Revealing Mary

Angela McShane Jones asks what depictions in broadsides of Mary II with her breasts exposed, tell us about 17th-century popular attitudes to royalty.