Age of Sail

A collection of 5 Posts

What the Genoese Could Have Told the Dutch post image

What the Genoese Could Have Told the Dutch

Nicholas Walton finds similarities in the histories of the Genoese and the Dutch

The Symbol of the Open Road Was Born at Sea post image

The Symbol of the Open Road Was Born at Sea

Tim Queeney explains the nautical origins of the steering wheel

The Royal Navy's Campaign to Suppress the Slave Trade with Stephen Taylor post image

The Royal Navy's Campaign to Suppress the Slave Trade with Stephen Taylor

Stephen Taylor's book, Predator of the Seas, follows the life of an extraordinary vessel

A Very Private Life – Nikolai Tolstoy Remembers Patrick O’Brian post image

A Very Private Life – Nikolai Tolstoy Remembers Patrick O’Brian

We look back at the life of the 'greatest historical novelist of all time'

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Charlestown, 1718

Julie Walker introduces us to Anne Bonny and Mary Read, adventurers at large