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What to Get the King Who Has Everything

By Sir Thomas Roe

Sir Thomas Roe had some difficulty making an impression on Emperor Jehangir.

The Voyage of John Cabot

By Edith Louise Marsh

On the Feast of St John the Baptist, June 24th, 1497, Venetian navigator John Cabot claimed North America for the King of England.

A Sight of Two Seas

By The Revd Philip Nichols

In 1573, Sir Francis Drake had two ambitions: to revenge himself on the Spanish, and to see with his own eyes the Pacific Ocean.

The Voyage of the ‘Golden Hinde’

By Clay Lane

Elizabethan adventurer Sir Francis Drake combined sailing round the world with really annoying the King of Spain.