Few pirates have sailed so swiftly from obscurity to myth as Thomas Tew. In the late 17th...
Pirates
The Golden Age of Piracy, spanning roughly from the 1650s to the 1730s, was marked by a surge in maritime raiding across the Atlantic and the Caribbean. This period saw the rise of infamous figures such as Edward Teach, Henry Every and Bartholomew Roberts, operating at a time when empires were expanding and naval power was in flux. Pirates targeted merchant shipping routes, often exploiting colonial rivalries and weak enforcement. While romanticised in later fiction, piracy in this era was brutal, opportunistic and shaped by the politics and economics of empire, trade and war. It left a complex and lasting historical legacy.
Thomas Cavendish was the kind of man who wanted to make history but ended up being swallowed...
Benjamin Hornigold is one of those figures who straddles the blurry line between pirate legend and colonial...
Rachel Wall’s story is a rare one in the annals of piracy. She was not only one...
Piracy was not just a man’s world. Across centuries of sea battles, mutinies, and rum-soaked legends, women...
Grace O’Malley, also known by her Irish name Gráinne Ní Mháille, remains one of the most compelling...
What Sunken Ships Tell Us About the Real Golden Age Pirates Beneath the waters off the Americas,...
Queen Anne’s Revenge was for a time a vehicle of terror on the high seas. She was...
If there’s one thing that keeps the legends of piracy alive, it isn’t just the rum, the...
Few names in naval history strike the same chord as Hayreddin Barbarossa. To Christians of the 16th...