All his spies : the secret world of Robert Cecil /
by Alford, Stephen.
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BookPublisher: UK : Allen Lane, 2024Description: xxxii, 416 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (black and white, and colour), maps (black and white) ; 24 cm.ISBN: 9780241423479 (hbk.) :; 0241423473 (hbk.) :.Classification number: 942.055 ALFSubject(s): Salisbury, Robert Cecil, Earl of, 1563-1612 | History | History | England | 16th century, c 1500 to c 1599 | 17th century, c 1600 to c 1699 | Biography: historical, political & military | European history | Great Britain -- History -- Elizabeth, 1558-1603 | Great Britain -- History -- James I, 1603-1625 | Great Britain -- Politics and government -- 1558-1603 | Great Britain -- Politics and government -- 1603-1625Summary: Robert Cecil, statesman and spymaster, lived through an astonishingly threatening period in English history. Queen Elizabeth had no clear successor and enemies both external and internal threatened to destroy England as a Protestant state, most spectacularly with the Spanish Armada and the Gunpowder Plot. Cecil stood at the heart of the Tudor and then Stuart state, a vital figure in managing the succession from Elizabeth I to James I & VI, warding off military and religious threats and steering the decisions of two very different but equally wilful and hard-to-manage monarchs. The promising son of Queen Elizabeth's chief minister Lord Burghley, for Cecil there was no choice but politics, and he became supremely skilled in the arts of power, making many rivals and enemies. 'All His Spies' is an engaging and original work of history.
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| 942.052 MOO The Pilgrimage of Grace: the rebellion that shook Henry VIII's throne | 942.053 STO A murderous midsummer : the western rising of 1549 / | 942.053 TAL Crown of blood : the deadly inheritance of Lady Jane Grey / | 942.055 ALF All his spies : the secret world of Robert Cecil / | 942.055 ARM Four queens and a countess | 942.055 CHI God's traitors: | 942.055 GUY Elizabeth : the forgotten years / |
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Robert Cecil, statesman and spymaster, lived through an astonishingly threatening period in English history. Queen Elizabeth had no clear successor and enemies both external and internal threatened to destroy England as a Protestant state, most spectacularly with the Spanish Armada and the Gunpowder Plot. Cecil stood at the heart of the Tudor and then Stuart state, a vital figure in managing the succession from Elizabeth I to James I & VI, warding off military and religious threats and steering the decisions of two very different but equally wilful and hard-to-manage monarchs. The promising son of Queen Elizabeth's chief minister Lord Burghley, for Cecil there was no choice but politics, and he became supremely skilled in the arts of power, making many rivals and enemies. 'All His Spies' is an engaging and original work of history.
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