Since childhood, Mary Stuart had enjoyed writing in cipher. Later in life, as Queen of Scots and a prisoner in England for nearly 19 years, the skill became essential to her survival. From an early ...

One of Britain’s most famous and controversial monarchs, Mary Queen of Scots spent much of her life in captivity. To maintain her power, build alliances and outwit her enemies, she wrote and smuggled ...

As a child Mary loved writing in code. As a captive queen, it became essential to her survival. Since childhood, Mary Stuart had enjoyed writing in cipher. Later in life, as Queen of Scots and a ...

Mary, Queen of Scots– ill, paranoid and desperate in her years of captivity under Elizabeth I – passed many of the long and dreary hours of her incarceration writing letters, many in code. Now, over ...

The imprisoned Mary, Queen of Scots used sophisticated ciphers as she conspired to overthrow her cousin, Elizabeth I. Long thought lost, the letters were hiding in plain sight. A portrait of a ...

Tracing the extraordinary story of the amateur codebreakers who collaborated across continents to decipher a mysterious cache of coded letters which were discovered to be from Mary, Queen of Scots.

As creators of educational, religious and charitable institutions, women of means found ways to circumvent the patriarchal ...

In some ways, then, Ghosts was the culmination of everything the team had done to date, encompassing the factual foundation ...

Scotland was afraid, very afraid as the hunt for ‘witches’ swept the country.

The United Kingdom is pulling out all the stops between June 2 and 5, 2022, to celebrate Queen Elizabeth II’s Platinum Jubilee, marking her 70th year on the throne—the longest reign for any British ...

Mary Portas has a varied résumé. Ms. Portas, an English retail and branding authority known as Mary Queen of Shops (and once host of a reality show of the same name), landed her first job at Harrods ...

Queen Mary of Denmark is an indisputable icon of contemporary European royal style – she is the master of blending classical sophistication and a more modern edge, all the while being a champion of ...