Russell Barnes

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.

Richard Clay, art historian and expert on semiotics and iconoclasm and the interplay between new technology and shifts in meaning, compares and contrasts cultural symbols from across the centuries, unpicking iconic images, music, and other cultural outputs to explain where ‘stickiness’ comes from.

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.

Richard Clay, art historian and expert on semiotics and iconoclasm and the interplay between new technology and shifts in meaning, compares and contrasts cultural symbols from across the centuries, unpicking iconic images, music, and other cultural outputs to explain where ‘stickiness’ comes from.