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Caricature of John Stuart Mill, by ‘Spy’, Leslie Matthew Ward, in Vanity Fair, March 1873.

What’s Wrong with Liberalism?

David Wootton | Published in History Today Volume 68 Issue 12 December 2018

‘The greatest good for the greatest number’ flounders when society cannot agree on what is ‘good’ – or ‘bad’.

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