The spies of Queen Elizabeth I
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🗓️ 16 September 2011
⏱️ 28 minutes
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| 0:50.6 | I'm Dave Musgrove, the editor of the magazine, and this is the third of our September 2011 editions. |
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| 1:00.9 | one. I've been talking to York University's Dr John Cooper, author of the new book, The Queen's |
| 1:06.4 | Agent, Francis Walsingham at the Court of Elizabeth I. He's also written the cover feature of the October issue of BBC History magazine, |
| 1:14.3 | where he explores how Sir Francis Walsingham went about keeping the Tudor Queen safe from harm in the 16th century. |
| 1:22.1 | Elizabeth was a Protestant queen in the charged atmosphere following the Reformation, |
| 1:26.6 | and she faced threats, particularly |
| 1:28.5 | from Catholic agents who wanted to return to the Catholic way of worship. |
| 1:33.4 | I caught up with John Cooper to find out more about Walsingham's methods. |
| 1:38.2 | We're talking Francis Walsingham, and in your book, one of the points you're making is that he was responsible for Queen Elizabeth I first security. |
| 1:49.7 | That's right. |
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