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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

Giovanni Segantini shows rural life being encroached upon by industrialisation, 1897. Minneapolis Institute of Art. Public Domain.

What is Social History?

History Today | Published in History Today Volume 35 Issue 3 March 1985

A new form of antiquarianism? Celebrating experience at the expense of analysis? Seven leading historians seek to define social history.