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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

A Congolese man sits looking at a severed hand and foot. Museum of Ethnography. Public Domain.

Roger Casement’s Heart of Darkness

Angus Mitchell | Published in History Today Volume 49 Issue 12 December 1999

The grim reality underlying Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness echoed the growing moral outrage over the murderous rubber trade.