Pirate hunters

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For a time the Caribbean was ruled by lawless seafarers, but then it all came

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All About History Magazine

18 April 2024

Who Do You Think You Are?

On the trail of the smugglers

Visit any waterside tavern along the coast of Britain and you’re likely to hear some yarn about its smuggling past, no doubt embellished with each sip of ale: barrels clandestinely offloaded onto a mo

All About History

Scourge of the spanish main

Bloodthirsty privateer to some, heroic governor of Jamaica to others, the legacy of Henry Morgan is steeped in controversy

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Greatest battles

BALTIMORE BALTIMORE, MARYLAND, USA 12-15 SEPTEMBER 1814

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Black life beyond the m25

“Hands of Saint Dominic” by Albrecht Dürer, 1506; ...

Country Life

Tyger, tyger burning bright

When Tipu Sultan resisted Britain’s colonial expansion, he was painted as a bogeyman and, after he fell, his kingdom was looted with shocking rapacity, but his legacy has long awed the British–not least William Blake and John Keats, as Lucien de Guise discovers

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“a connection was made between the rarefied world of the royal court and the politics of the street”

Ellie Cawthorne Why was the winter of 1641–42 such a pivotal time in British and Irish history? Jonathan Healey In the heart of that winter came one of the most iconic moments in English political his

Who Do You Think You Are?

On the trail of the smugglers

All About History

Scourge of the spanish main

Bloodthirsty privateer to some, heroic governor of Jamaica to others, the legacy of Henry Morgan is steeped in controversy

All About History

Greatest battles

BALTIMORE BALTIMORE, MARYLAND, USA 12-15 SEPTEMBER 1814

The TLS

Black life beyond the m25

“Hands of Saint Dominic” by Albrecht Dürer, 1506; ...

Country Life