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The golden age of piracy saw waves of rogue sailors terrorising the Atlantic wor
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
BALTIMORE BALTIMORE, MARYLAND, USA 12-15 SEPTEMBER 1814
Bloodthirsty privateer to some, heroic governor of Jamaica to others, the legacy of Henry Morgan is steeped in controversy
“Hands of Saint Dominic” by Albrecht Dürer, 1506; ...
Flight’s glamorous beginnings
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