Tag: Michael portillo state secrets celebrity AudioWriter of the month: witches, sorcery, scandal and seduction in Jacobean EnglandMonday 2 December 2013This talk describes the events which unfolded at Belvoir Castle four hundred years ago,...AudioThe scandalous case of John Vassall: sexuality, spying and the Civil ServiceMonday 17 December 2012Fifty years ago civil servant John Vassall was sentenced to 18 years’ imprisonment for...AudioSecurity Service file release October 2012Thursday 25 October 2012Professor Christopher Andrew, author of ‘The Defence of the Realm: The Authorized History of...AudioGenius on trial: key sources relating to Oscar Wilde at The National ArchivesFriday 3 July 2009The arrest and subsequent imprisonment of Oscar Wilde was one of the most sensational...