A Short History of Pirates

Dan Snow's History Hit

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4.7 • 12.9K Ratings

🗓️ 17 April 2022

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

Swashbuckling, murder and robbery on the high seas! We're bringing back the fan favourite episode on Dr Rebecca Simon's 'Pirate Queens: The Lives of Anne Bonny & Mary Read' from our archive.

She takes Dan through a dramatic history of piracy in the Caribbean and the Atlantic World. She tells the extraordinary stories of pirates Anne Bonny, Mary Read as well as captains Blackbeard, Jack Rackham and the notoriously sadistic Charles Vane. She also gives Dan the lowdown on pirate treasure.

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0:00.0	Hi everybody, welcome to Dan Snow's History Hit. Rebecca Simon is an academic and broadcaster.
0:07.4	She very cleverly came to the UK to do her PhD at King's College London. She now teaches in
0:13.9	Los Angeles where she teaches, among other things, about pirates. If you want to know about Captain
0:20.6	Kid, if you want to know about Black Bed, if you want to know about the so-called Golden Age of
0:23.7	Piracy, Golden for some, pretty grim for others, I'm guessing, to miss the podcast for you.
0:28.5	I thought it was Rebecca all about pirates and the Spanish main. If you want to watch, we've got
0:34.0	quite a lot of naval history on history.com. When I say quite a lot, we've got a huge amount
0:39.9	of naval history on the X. I'm slightly obsessed with naval history as he was long suffering.
0:43.3	Listeners know. So after you've listened to the wonderful Rebecca Simon, head over to history.com.com.
0:47.3	We're back and thank you so much for coming on the podcast.
0:56.7	You're welcome. Thank you so much for having me. I'm excited to be here.
0:59.4	Everyone chooses their area of expertise, depending on their own taste, but you've done well to
1:05.2	choose pirates. I mean, being the world's leading expert on pirates is pretty cool, isn't it?
1:09.3	It's a pretty good way to introduce myself at parties. That's for sure.
1:13.2	Julia Caesar spent his time dealing with piracy in the Mediterranean and one man's pirates and
1:18.4	other man's arm seepher. Why do we talk about the sort of this golden age of piracy in the
1:23.8	sort of 17th and 18th centuries? What is that? Also, is that just myth or is there something true in that?
1:31.6	Well, it is a genuine time period that pirate historians have sort of defined from around the time
1:37.5	between 1670 and about 1730-ish. And the reason why we call it the golden age of piracy is particularly
1:46.5	in the 18th century. This was the first time where we had large organized bands of pirates with
1:52.4	very specific holdouts and lots of really major captain leaders, like we've never seen before.
1:57.8	For the most part in history, piracy was either isolated incidents or maybe unique bands of
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