Elizabeth Sparrow
Biographic Data
| ID | 5441506 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Elizabeth Sparrow |
| GIVEN NAMES | Elizabeth |
| FAMILY NAME | Sparrow |
| SIGNATURE | SPARROW E |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 3 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 5 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 3 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1990 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1998 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Secret Service under Pitt's Administrations, 1792–1806
The article has a double theme: first, that Louis XVI's ex‐ministers and police officers exercised an important influence on Pitt and his ministers, an influence that encouraged the introduction of both a French‐style secret police within Britain, and a foreign secret service principally directed against republican governments in France; second, that a study of the resulting espionage is of crucial importance for an understanding of the history o…
The Swiss and Swabian Agencies, 1795–1801
This article continues an examination of the British government's counter-revolutionary organization begun in ‘The Alien Office 1792-1806’, The Historical Journal, XXXIII (1990), which outlined the department's functions and secret service policy. The Swiss and Swabian agencies were one aspect of British foreign secret service; they linked the French princes' secret agents to the British government under the central European control of William Wi…
The Alien Office, 1792–1806
This investigation and my ability to describe alien office structure is due more to chance than prior intention as it arose out of a difficult examination of the life of Thomas Pitt, second Lord Camelford (1775–1804). Lacking direct sources about him, I turned to an examination of his friends and associates and gradually a pattern emerged: an international network of secret agents. But who directed them, and from where? For a time the answer elud…
The Alien Office, 1792–1806
This investigation and my ability to describe alien office structure is due more to chance than prior intention as it arose out of a difficult examination of the life of Thomas Pitt, second Lord Camelford (1775–1804). Lacking direct sources about him, I turned to an examination of his friends and associates and gradually a pattern emerged: an international network of secret agents. But who directed them, and from where? For a time the answer elud…
Secret Service under Pitt's Administrations, 1792–1806
The article has a double theme: first, that Louis XVI's ex‐ministers and police officers exercised an important influence on Pitt and his ministers, an influence that encouraged the introduction of both a French‐style secret police within Britain, and a foreign secret service principally directed against republican governments in France; second, that a study of the resulting espionage is of crucial importance for an understanding of the history o…
The Swiss and Swabian Agencies, 1795–1801
This article continues an examination of the British government's counter-revolutionary organization begun in ‘The Alien Office 1792-1806’, The Historical Journal, XXXIII (1990), which outlined the department's functions and secret service policy. The Swiss and Swabian agencies were one aspect of British foreign secret service; they linked the French princes' secret agents to the British government under the central European control of William Wi…
The Alien Office, 1792–1806
This investigation and my ability to describe alien office structure is due more to chance than prior intention as it arose out of a difficult examination of the life of Thomas Pitt, second Lord Camelford (1775–1804). Lacking direct sources about him, I turned to an examination of his friends and associates and gradually a pattern emerged: an international network of secret agents. But who directed them, and from where? For a time the answer elud…
The Swiss and Swabian Agencies, 1795–1801
This article continues an examination of the British government's counter-revolutionary organization begun in ‘The Alien Office 1792-1806’, The Historical Journal, XXXIII (1990), which outlined the department's functions and secret service policy. The Swiss and Swabian agencies were one aspect of British foreign secret service; they linked the French princes' secret agents to the British government under the central European control of William Wi…
Secret Service under Pitt's Administrations, 1792–1806
The article has a double theme: first, that Louis XVI's ex‐ministers and police officers exercised an important influence on Pitt and his ministers, an influence that encouraged the introduction of both a French‐style secret police within Britain, and a foreign secret service principally directed against republican governments in France; second, that a study of the resulting espionage is of crucial importance for an understanding of the history o…
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