From the June 2015 Issue Treason at the Tower The Audacious Crimes of Colonel Blood: The Spy Who Stole the Crown Jewels & Became the King’s Secret Agent By Robert Hutchinson LR
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From the February 2007 Issue An Agent Of Tyranny Thomas Cromwell: The Rise and Fall of Henry VIII’s Most Notorious Minister By Robert Hutchinson LR
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In just thirteen years, George Villiers rose from plain squire to become the only duke in England and the most powerful politician in the land. Does a new biography finally unravel the secrets of his success?
John Adamson investigates.
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During the 1930s, Winston Churchill retired to Chartwell, his Tudor-style country house in Kent, where he plotted a return to power.
Richard Vinen asks whether it’s time to rename the decade long regarded as Churchill’s ‘wilderness years’.
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