
Walk the Plank! Or not… Why the Plank is but a popular myth
Many of the popular myths about pirates and piracy came about thanks to Robert Louis Stevensons’ Treasure Island and the media’s fascination with all…
Read MoreMany of the popular myths about pirates and piracy came about thanks to Robert Louis Stevensons’ Treasure Island and the media’s fascination with all…
Read MoreIt’s very easy to romanticize or idealize the life of a pirate; films such as “the Pirates of the Caribbean” make it almost unavoidable,…
Read MoreMost of what we know about pirates has been passed down to us through literature, scraps of historical records, art and (more recently) movies….
Read MoreWith so much obsession with pirates and tales of treasure, you would think that the canons of literature were packed with top pirate books….
Read MoreIn order to be a pirate throughout history, you needed to know more than just how to sail a pirate ship and drink rum….
Read MoreHistorically, working class women had very few choices: marriage, prostitution, life in a convent or hard labour in farms and cities. In fact, unless…
Read MoreHistory’s most fearsome buccaneers often made their stopovers in safe harbors around the Caribbean, the coasts of Mexico and the Gulf of Mexico. They…
Read MoreHistory is packed full of accounts of terrifying pirates, but which are the most scary. Take a look at this list of the 5…
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