Oceania is the first ever major survey of Oceanic art to be held in the United Kingdom. This ambitious exhibition celebrates the art of Melanesia, Micronesia and Polynesia, encompassing the vast ...

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 ...

In December 1787, H. M. S. Bounty, a British armed transport commanded by a brutal martinet named William Bligh, set sail from Spithead, England, for Tahiti, from which it was to take breadfruit ...