LECTURE PART 2:   
BRIEF HISTORY OF PRE-MODERN SECRET SERVICES    

"second oldest profession in the world"

Moses

Trojan Horse

Sun Tzü, The Art of War

Quintus Sertorius (biography by) Plutarch

vigilantes

frumentarri

agents in rebus

curiosi


Basil Pantherios in Digenes Akritas

Machiavelli, The Prince; Discourses; The Art of War

Oprichniki

polizeistaat (police state)

"secret" police (privy)

Sir Francis Walsingham

St. Bartholomew's Day Massacre

Christopher Marlowe - Anthony Munday

Edmund Campion

Babington Plot

Gilbert Gifford

Babington Postscript

Royal Mail

"Secret Man" Isaac Dorislaus

“Secret Office” & “Private Office”

Deciphering Department

William Wickham

Luddite Movement

Habeas Corpus 

Home Office 

Committee of Secrecy

Spa Field Riots

Spies and Bloodites

Depot of Military Knowledge 

Crimean War

Attorney General John A. Macdonald -- Canada West Frontier Police

Special Branch, London Metropolitan Police