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Servants pour wine to Jacobean gentlemen in a London tavern, c.early 17th century

A better deal than Downton? A day in the life of a Jacobean servant

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Illustration of Major Stede Bonnet, the Gentleman Pirate

Stede Bonnet, Gentleman Pirate: how a mid-life crisis created the ‘worst pirate of all time’

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Witch hunters: cynical persecutors or misguided zealots?

James Hamilton's 1880s painting 'The Massacre of Glencoe'.

Hell at Glencoe: what led to the massacre in the Scottish Highlands?

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A portrait of King Charles I

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Painting of Bonnie Prince Charlie

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Queen Anne’s Revenge: why was Blackbeard’s flagship named after the Stuart queen?

Blackbeard, real name Edward Teach, seen standing on a dock with fuses in his beard

Blackbeard: dastardly sea-devil or kind pirate?

Barbary pirates Oruç and Hayreddin Barbarossa, the siblings who famously captured Algiers from the Spanish in 1516

Barbary pirates: the Muslim corsairs and their role in the slave trade

Henry Avery stands on the shore holding a cutlass, while his ship Fancy battles the Ganj-i-Sawai in the background

The real pirates of the Caribbean: your guide to Nassau’s pirate republic

Henry Morgan on ship's deck in battle taking a hostage

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Gentleman pirate Stede Bonnet is hanged from the gallows

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