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Hell on high water: the rise and fall of the golden age of piracy
General Early Modern
Caroline Dodds Pennock
“Indigenous Americans were horrified by inequalities in European society”
Elizabethan
Kwasi Kwarteng
"Wars are bloody expensive – so the only way nations can buy what they need is by printing their own money"
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Tudor
Why we should remember…
When Spanish conquistadors were forced to flee the Aztec capital
Victorian
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What does Cinco de Mayo commemorate?
Victorian
The Siege of Querétaro: the downfall of Maximilian I of Mexico
Victorian
Mexico’s ill-fated Austrian emperor
Stuart
The real pirates of the Caribbean: your guide to Nassau’s pirate republic
20th Century
Emma Dabiri
“He dreamed a career that seemed impossible and made it a reality”
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Victorian
Jamaica’s Morant Bay Rebellion: brutality and outrage in the British empire
First World War
Innocence under fire: how children were used in warfare of the past
Cold War
“We are eyeball to eyeball, and I think the other fellow just blinked”: how the Cuban Missile Crisis escalated
Second World War
Wartime Britain’s mixed-race babies
Tudor
Two worlds collide: Spanish conquistadors and Aztecs
20th Century
Bound for Britain: your guide to the arrival of the HMT
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