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PIRATES: THE GOLDEN AGE OF PIRACY

Explosive personalities and daring-but-dastardly deeds from this period have ricocheted through time, resonating with the inner rebel and rogue in all of us. They have inspired characters such as Captain Hook, Long John Silver and Jack Sparrow, but the real pirates would leave these guys for dead in a genuine Buccaneer of the Year contest.

Plus… Edward Teach: Blackbeard

Meet the pirate who earned a centuries-spanning reputation as the most dastardly sea-devil of them all, but who may have been one of the kindest – or rather, less villainous…

Also inside the issue…

APOLLO 13
It could have been the worst tragedy in NASA’s history, but instead it was turned into their finest hour

INTO THE VALLEY OF DEATH
The Charge of the Light Brigade at the Battle of Balaclava has gone down as shorthand for doomed heroism and military incompetence – why?

BOUDICCA: WARRIOR QUEEN
Unravelling the myth of the Queen of the Iceni and a leader who almost drove the Romans from Britain, leaving rivers of blood in her wake

Plus…

Who was the Grand Old Duke of York? And other fascinating questions answered by our panel of experts in Q&A

The Munich Air Disaster

Winston Churchill – the life of a born leader

The evolution of St Valentine’s Day

The original Marathon Man? Pheidippides and his historic run

Unleashing the pooches – the top 10 dogs in history

The Treaty of Waitangi – the making of modern New Zealand

You could win a prize by completing this month’s historical crossword

… and much, much more!

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