“Slavers Revenging Their Losses,” a 19th-century engraving contained in an 1866 book based on the sketches and reports of David Livingstone. Understanding Modern African Horrors by Way of the Indian Ocean Slave Trade Geoffrey Clarfield 6 Feb 2019 · 6 min read
John Cabot’s New Found Land In the fourth instalment of an ongoing Quillette series, historian Greg Koabel describes how the quest for cod and a possible passage to China sparked England’s first transatlantic ventures Greg Koabel 19 May 2023 · 33 min read
A Mixture of Pride and Shame The left’s refusal to frame the British Empire as anything but a force for pure evil makes for effective culture-war politics. But it also makes for bad history. Nigel Biggar 8 May 2023 · 10 min read