January Caption Competition
This month's History Today caption competition features a Punch cartoon from 1884 with Mars Manville de Horsey -- 'Famed for her pleasant little dinners' -- at the centre of gentlemen's attention.
The best caption will be published in the March edition of History Today and on this website, and the winner will receive a selection of recent history books. The competition closes on 31st January 2012.
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 The Hudson's Bay Company was one of the central forces moulding the development of the vast tracts of land that today are Canada - but as Barry Gough explains here, the circumstances of its launch in 1670 also reveal much about the commercial forces, personalities and rivalries of Restoration England. |
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Richard Cavendish recalls the death of the pirate William Kidd, executed on May 23rd, 1701.
