So how can we flat-white-sipping laptop warriors be “More Pirate” and apply the best practices from 18th century buccaneers, whilst abstaining from robbery and forcible amputations?

But not all pirates are equal. Unlike their Somali successors, early 18th century pirates, men like Blackbeard, "Black Bart" Roberts, and "Calico" Jack Rackam, weren't only thieves. They were also ...

In the deep waters between Morocco and Spain, wreck-divers discovered a pirate ship that may have sailed the seas during the ...

But what was life really like for an early 18th-century pirate? The answer: pretty grim. It was a world of staggering violence and poverty, constant danger, and almost inevitable death.

Did you know that in the 17th and 18th centuries ... The special also traced the history of pirates through the age of privateering and the 20th century rumrunners of the Prohibition era.

In David Graeber’s slim posthumous book, Pirate Enlightenment: Or the Real Libertalia, the anthropologist argues that 18th-century pirate society inspired and influenced European Enlightenment ...

gendered economics and direct democracy behind a legendary 18th-century pirate province. The bleeding edge of the Enlightenment’s democratic revolution, in this telling, wasn’t to be found in ...