History

John Soane called him the "Shakespeare of architecture." But Vanbrugh's grandest country houses, including Blenheim Palace, were never his alone: historians now trace their "bold flights of irregular fancy" to a largely uncredited creative partnership with architect Nicholas Hawksmoor.

— via The Conversation — History, Susie West, Lecturer in Architectural History, The Open University

Real pirates spoke Spanish more than English, ran multi-ethnic crews that sometimes kept captives enslaved, and included Chinese fleet commanders richer than the Dutch East India Company. The tricorne-hat stereotype, a pirate historian argues, erases most of them.

— via The Conversation — History, Kristie Patricia Flannery, Senior Research Fellow, Institute for Humanities and Social Sciences, Australian Catholic University