Victorians by the Sea Shore
C.M. Yonge shows how, during the nineteenth century, the British public began to take a keen interest in the wonders of their native beaches.
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Captain Kidd: Privateer, Pirate and Agent of Empire?
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
The British Acquisition of Fiji
Traders and missionaries from Europe settled on Fiji many years before its official annexation by the British Empire.
A Young Nationalist in the Easter Rising
Anthony Fletcher uses the papers of his artistic great-aunt, who, as a young nationalist, wrote an eyewitness account of the Easter Rising, to explore her yo