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Thomas Carlyle and the London Library

Michael Foot | Published in History Today Volume 41 Issue 4 April 1991

Michael Foot celebrates the anniversary of the London Library with a tribute to its founder, Thomas Carlyle.

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