Baldock’s smuggling legacy Part 3: What lies in dark cellars?
Small, almost insignificant details of a Last Will and Testament can often lead to hidden parts of a person’s life …
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Napoleon’s affairs with the bankers and smugglers
At the end of the 17th and beginning of the 18th century free traders went about their business more or …
Naughty Mr Rothschild. Was he caught in the act?
It was often a fine line that financiers and bankers trod in their dealings. The Rothschilds appear to have walked …
A bullish attitude towards smuggling in the 18th century.
It doesn’t take much research to realise that smuggling was an activity that could be both professional (large-scale planned ‘free …
