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The golden age of piracy is over, in part because major internet corporations have cracked down on piracy efforts across the ...

During the golden age of piracy, their party place of choice was an island called Nassau in the Bahamas. Rumour has it that there was one tavern for every 12 people. Drink up, me hearties!

Born to destitution in late-17th-century England, Mary Read – the real-life pirate and fictionalised narrator of Francesca de Tores’s new novel, Saltblood – wears the identity of a boy from ...

He is the co-author of The Pirate King: The Strange Adventures of Henry Avery and the Birth of the Golden Age of Piracy and Enslaved: The Sunken History of the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade.