What do you think of when you hear the word ‘pirate?’ You might imagine men who sail the high seas to rob and loot any ships ...

The original Golden Age of Piracy was largely the product of the first signs of European imperial decline brought on by their own colonial overreach in the New World.

In her new book, The Pirate's Code, Rebecca Simon debunks the myths of 17th and 18th century piracy, revealing that, with practices such as keel-hauling, the truth is even more gruesome.

Under the black flag. Overall, around 4,000 sea dogs plagued the world’s sea lanes during the golden age of piracy.In the 1690s, early pirates sailed between western India and the Red Sea coasts ...

The golden age of piracy. From the 1650s until the 1730s, the cutlass-wielding, rum-drinking pirates we know from film and television were indeed roaming around the Caribbean, and then further afield.

Featuring such notorious pirate figures as Blackbeard and Charles Vane, an account of the Golden Age of Piracy in the early 18th century, and the centre of this resurgence in Nassau on the ...

During the golden age of piracy from 1660 to 1730, English colonists and mariners throughout the lower Chesapeake Bay had good reason to fear for their property — as well as their lives. Cape ...

When pirates weren’t marauding on the high seas between the 1650s and 1730s—the so-called golden age of piracy—they sought haven in Caribbean ports to restock their goods, fix their ships ...

The latest frontline in the battle against the illegal distribution of content is the fight against those providing would-be pirates with off-the-shelf piracy kits, according to the Motion Picture ...