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A Portuguese merchant is greeted by his Indian household, early 16th century.

Portugal: The First Global Empire

Roger Crowley | Published in History Today Volume 65 Issue 10 October 2015

Poor and small, Portugal was at the edge of late medieval Europe. But its seafarers created the age of ‘globalisation’, which continues to this day.

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.

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