William Bligh may well be the most maligned man in history. His name has become a byword for cruelty; a tyrant who drove the crew of his ship, HMS Bounty, to such despair that they were forced ...

As the United Nations COP29 climate summit hits its halfway point this week, the enduring image of several days in Baku, Azerbaijan, of arguing about funds and emissions is not so much an image at ...

Midshipman Roger Byam joins Captain Bligh and Fletcher Christian aboard HMS Bounty for a voyage to Tahiti ... Christian leads the crew to mutiny on the homeward voyage. Even though Byam takes ...