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More than Just Kidd’s Play

Tom Wareham examines the role played by a legendary yet ill-fated pirate in the consolidation of England’s early trading empire. When Captain William Kidd was executed for murder and piracy on…
PUBLISHED: Dec. 12, 2012
LENGTH: 16 minutes (4122 words)

William Golding's crisis

On the evening of 12 April 1967, in the cosy sitting room of his cottage in Bowerchalke, near Salisbury, the novelist William Golding and his family settled down next to the radio to listen to the…
PUBLISHED: March 11, 2012
LENGTH: 9 minutes (2458 words)
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