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HMS Beagle surveys the coasts of South America. Painting by Conrad Martens

The Descent of Genius: Charles Darwin's Brilliant Career

Roy Porter | Published in History Today Volume 32 Issue 7 July 1982

What were the origins of Charles Darwin's particular species of genius?

Captain Kidd: Privateer, Pirate and Agent of Empire?

Tom Wareham | Published in History Today Volume 63 Issue 1 January 2013

The trial of Captain William Kidd raised uncomfortable questions for the state about the pirate’s role in the consolidation of England’s early overseas empir