Pirate hunters

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

BALTIMORE BALTIMORE, MARYLAND, USA 12-15 SEPTEMBER 1814

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

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

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

Nick Leather sails his Westerly Storm, Musketeer , from the Inner Hebrides to the South Coast – the final stages of a tremendous circumnavigation of the British Isles