Alan Marshall

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.

Killing No Murder

Alan Marshall recounts the tale of the men who tried to assassinate Oliver Cromwell.