Maritime history

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The East India Company and Nelson

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1492: The Year Our World Began

Captain Kidd

The sacrifice of Captain Kidd

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Second World War

News for the BBC’s Domesday Project and the future of the National Archives

Spain’s maritime decline

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The Library Old and new - a look at the Merchant Navy and modern-day western supremacy

Two women from South America. Six centuries ago South American civilisations matched the west in some respects. (Getty Images)

The wonder of the west

Trawler crew, c1900. (Photo by Past Pix/SSPL/Getty Images)

Toilers of the deep

British evacuees from Dunkirk walk off their rescue vessel land in Britain. (Photo by Corbis via Getty Images)

Second World War

Where history happened: Dunkirk

A ship in a storm

How did Britain come to rule the waves?

Broadcaster Simon Mayo

My history hero: William Trevelyan Richards

‘Battle of Quiberon Bay' (c1765), from 'Old Naval Prints' by Charles N Robinson and Geoffrey Holme (The Studio Limited, London), 1924. (Photo by Print Collector/Getty Images)

The battle for Britain 1759

Portrait of Captain William Bligh. (Photo by Bettmann/Getty Images)

My history hero: William Bligh (1754–1817)

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The Library Bermuda in the British Empire and Medieval brutality

The Royal Navy in Nelson’s Era reading list