Aphra Behn

All successful spies need to be good actors

18 December 2021 9:00 am

On 2 October last year, when he became chief of the UK Secret Intelligence Service (MI6, if you prefer), Richard…

‘The Discovery of the Large, Rich, Beautiful Empire called Guiana’, from ‘Newe Weld un Americanische Historien’, by Johann Ludwig Gottfried, 1631

The strange history of Willoughbyland, modern-day Suriname

8 August 2015 9:00 am

John Gimlette on the strange and superbly told story of Willoughbyland, England’s ‘lost’ colony