How do empires rise? Why do they fall? And how have they shaped the world around us today? William Dalrymple and Anita Anand... more
J.M. Barrie, the fascinating Scottish writer, gave us Peter Pan - the boy who never grows up, and his notorious... more
Robert Louis Stevenson, a sickly boy with a vivid imagination, grew up along Scotland’s rugged coast, where tales of shipwrecks... more
For many years, commemorations of the two World Wars excluded the memorialisation of soldiers from the British Empire. But campaigners... more
After robbing the fleet in a brutal, barbaric fashion, Henry Avery caused a diplomatic incident of global proportions. The Mughals... more
One of the most notable pirates of his day, Henry Avery would go on to make potentially the most lucrative... more
William Kidd, a respectable Scottish privateer during the late 17th century, tasked with hunting down pirates on the orders of... more
Alongside legends like Blackbeard and Calico Jack, William Kidd is one of the most famous pirates to have entered the... more
“At our first salutation he drank damnation to me and my men who styled cowardly puppies saying he would neither... more
The history of pirates is a thrilling kaleidoscope of adventure, devastation, violence and political intrigue, and never more so than... more
When King Alfonso VI of León took Toledo from the Arabs in 1085, the history of western christendom changed forever.... more