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Pete Langman
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Writer, editor, historian, cricketer and Parkinsonian. YOPD, OED, PhD. Co-author of Spycraft. petelangman.com
There's a wheellock pistol on display too, but it's not the one actually used, I believe ...
November 28, 2025 at 2:29 PM
The third bullet didn't make it through to the wall ...
November 28, 2025 at 7:43 AM
All the single knights errant (All the single knights errant) ...
November 27, 2025 at 11:46 AM
Random Cloud called it Optical Wreckognition for a reason!
November 27, 2025 at 6:52 AM
Nailed that one ...
November 27, 2025 at 6:23 AM
Next up, places and people ... love it!
November 10, 2025 at 11:02 AM
Anyone would think that these people hadn't heard of books, or libraries ...
October 16, 2025 at 7:47 AM
'sing, commissioning editor, of the glorious papers ...'
October 9, 2025 at 9:21 AM
That good?
September 30, 2025 at 6:45 AM
Did you catch the show?
September 30, 2025 at 6:34 AM
Absolutely ... historians will reinterpret the apocalypse given half a chance ...
September 26, 2025 at 1:22 PM
I'm plumping for magic ...
September 24, 2025 at 7:34 AM
A marvellous piece of work!
September 23, 2025 at 3:48 PM
Reposted by Pete Langman
You can get it from Westwood Books and there are even a couple of 1st Edition signed hardbacks that I had put aside but forgot if you search it on the site
Spycraft: Tricks and Tools of the Dangerous Trade from Elizabeth I to the Restoration, Nadine Akkerman & Pete Langman
New Paperback A fascinating exploration of the devious tricks and ingenious tools used by early modern spies—from ciphers to counterfeiting, invisible inks to assassination   Early modern Europe was a...
www.westwoodbooks.co.uk
September 23, 2025 at 3:03 PM
I always wonder how they shelved their books in this manner yet still knew which book was which ...
September 23, 2025 at 3:28 PM
I suspect that Trump et al have decided that autism is more prevalent in left-wing households (or that autism tends to make people lean to the left, for obvious reasons) ... thus making a 'cure' a way to increase their voter base (while allowing them to further demonise people who cry 'bollocks')...
September 22, 2025 at 5:31 PM
As in 'He's in a right state of Oxfordshire'?
September 17, 2025 at 8:11 AM
So the analogy is unwittingly perfect, then? Reform are not going to solve 'the crisis' because they are the crisis ...
September 16, 2025 at 9:35 AM
Tssk. You experts and your pesky evidence-based interpretations! What's wrong with believing every spittle-coated lump of bile that drops from the various orifices of a hypocritical grifter with the intellect of a gnat? After all, he only has mankind's best interests at heart ...
September 6, 2025 at 10:11 AM