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Germans looking out over the Brest submarine base. Press illustration. Finistère department archives. Inventory number: 208 J 126.

The Penguérec Massacre

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Stylised blooming flower pattern (printed textile) Manufacture Gorgerat Frères et compagnie, around 1785. ©Château des ducs de Bretagne-Musée d’histoire de Nantes. Valéry Joncheray

How the Textile Industry Helped the Atlantic Slave Trade

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Silver hot chocolate pot and porcelain sugar bowl from China, silver candle holder and decorative snuffbox. Tea set: sugar bowl, silver sugar sprinkler, porcelain teapot and tea cups with coat of arms. Mahogany table and ‘cabaret’ service tray. ©Château des ducs de Bretagne-Musée d’histoire de Nantes. Valéry Joncheray

The Colonial Goods at the Centre of a Global Market

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Side view of Nantes’ Marie-Séraphique and diagram of onboard layout. René Lhermitte, 1770. ©Château des ducs de Bretagne-Musée d’histoire de Nantes.

How Atlantic Slave Trade Campaigns Were Organised

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Dominique Deurbroucq and a young boy living in slavery, Nantes. Pierre-Bernard Morlot, 1753. ©Château des ducs de Bretagne-Nantes History Museum

The Role of the City of Nantes in the Atlantic Slave Trade in the XVII and XVIII Centuries

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A harbour seal in the Bay of Saint-Brieuc. Photo credit: Bay of Saint-Brieuc National Nature Reserve.

The Harbour Seal

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Grey seals can now be regularly spotted off the southern coast of Brittany, as shown in this photo taken in the Gulf of Morbihan in 2016 (photo: Catherine Pallard)

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Large schooner, almost certainly built in the Bonne-Lesueur local shipyard. Remarkable for its roll-down topsail and moonsail – Cartolis (extract)

Paimpol: A History of Cod Fishing, from Newfoundland to Iceland

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The Gwenn-ha-Du flying alongside the flags of supporters of En Avant de Guingamp football club. Photo: Vincent Michel.

Just How Traditional Is the Gwenn-ha-Du Flag?

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“Wards on Musical Parade”, start of the 20th century. Postcard from the Petitjean Collection. Source: Morbihan Department Archives. Ref: 9FI 152/254

Belle-Île’s Marching Band

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The sea acted as a natural barrier, hindering any escape attempts. Postcard ‘Wards on a naval exercise’, start of the 20th century. Printed by Combier-Macon’. Source: Morbihan Department Archives. Ref : 9FI 152/251

“They hit us with bull pistles!”

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Wards arrive at the Douaires agricultural penal colony in the Eure region. Source: © Ministry of Justice - ENPJJ

Beggars, Vagabonds and Petty Thieves

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