Greenwood

Founded in Nottingham shortly after the Norman invasion, Greenwood was revived in Scotland, in 1879, by Queen Victoria, after she was attacked by a werewolf. They take the name from Luke 23:31 – "If they do these things in the green wood, what will they do in the dry?" – which Victoria took to mean that, if even someone as well-protected as a queen is open to supernatural attack, what about everyone else? The internal meaning is that there are worse times coming and they should prepare.
From its start, Greenwood has had a general animosity toward the esoteric; supernatural / magic / psychic / paranormal = enemy. They are very much the Crown's monster-hunters.
Since some of the monsters are intelligent, Greenwood is ruthless about staying secret. The only reason they let Stoker publish the letters and diary entries of the humans involved when Prince Vlad Tepes Dracula tried to invade England shortly after Greenwood's revival is that they saw that presenting the incident as fiction was the best way to hide it. And you've never heard of the Edinburgh Werewolf, the Pevensie Anomaly (except in the most heavily disguised form), the Barsetshire Regulars, the Devonshire Vampires, what's buried under Amesditch, or what really became of Spring-Heeled Jack.
Their contacts in the mundane government are limited to the Prime Minister, the monarch, and whoever the monarch deigns to tell. (Greenwood almost always wishes the royal lips would stay a bit better buttoned, but after all it's a hell of a secret and you have to talk about these reports with someone. So, the consort and one or two very close friends usually get let in. The heir is generally left to find out for themselves).
Greenwood is very possessive of weird stuff: "If it's magic, it's ours." They want specimens to investigate and weapons to use. Any British magician that poses any problem at all will be taken down and looted. Non-human problems are generally killed, but, if they leave a body, it's taken in for examination. Greenwood has quite a collection of bottled ghosts; they disapprove of ghosts more than they disapprove of ghost-drinking and so take no steps against the ghost trade. Their research facilities are in their safe houses, scattered in isolated bits of British countryside.
Since they have to pick up their talent where they can, Greenwood has been progressive about using agents of any class, religion, race, or sex. It is currently headed by Capt. Jacob Harker, of Jamaican extraction, who took the post in 1978 and still looks a vigorous fifty ~ presumably the result of some of that magical looting. He and his staff have a reputation (in a very small circle) for showing up abruptly, acting abrupt, and leaving abruptly, but when they leave at least things are back to normal. They keep close tabs on each other, since Greenwood agents who have "gone under deep cover" have often not appeared again, or not as Greenwood agents.
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