It’s a pirate’s life for me

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; ...

This week’s dream: a tall ship adventure in ...

The dandy’s role as icon and irritant

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

John Turner, Michael Aldous Cambridge University Press, £25 W hy did Britain go from being one of the richest countries in the world at the end of the Victorian era to today being in the middle of the