The Pirate History Podcast
Matt Albers
A podcast about the Golden Age of Piracy in the Caribbean, the real men and women that threatened the trade and stability of the Old World empires, the forces that led them to piracy and the myths and stories they inspired. Famous names like Captain Henry Morgan, Henry Avery, Charles Vane, Mary Reed, Anne Bonny, Black Bart Roberts, Ned Low, and Edward 'Blackbeard' Teach will rub elbows with Queens, Kings, Popes, rebellious monks, Caribbean Natives, African Slaves and notorious governors like Woodes Rogers. History, high seas adventure, myth and magic, voodoo, treachery, biography and freedom await.
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Aug 11, 2020 • 35min
Episode 175 - The Vocabulary of Despair
This is the tale of the final days of la Nuestra Senora de la Concepcion. Her crew went through an odyssey of torment and suffering which we will cover in painful detail here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Aug 4, 2020 • 35min
Episode 174 - Nuestra Señora de la Concepción
La Nuestra Senora de la Concepcion is one of the most famous shipwrecks of all time. Thanks to the political ramifications of her final voyage and a legacy of pirates and treasure hunters her story is a key link in our story. Today we begin that tale. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Jul 28, 2020 • 35min
Episode 173 - King WIlliam's War
This is the story of the beginnings of the Nine Years War in America. We return to Fort Loyal, visit Port Royal (not that one), talk Indian allies, French & English colonial friction, and the conflict called Father Castin's War. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Jul 21, 2020 • 33min
Episode 172 - The Williamite War
The Nine Years War first major (non-Continental) front was in Ireland. It was there that King James' fate was sealed, that England's course was set, and that a whole generation of young Irish sailors learned what the English crown meant to them. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Jul 7, 2020 • 31min
Episode 171 - A Rose by Any Other Name
This is our final episode following Thomas Pound. In 1690 he was rotting away in a Boston jail cell awaiting a ship that would carry him - and Thomas Hawkins - to the gallows in England. And then everything goes crazy. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Jun 30, 2020 • 34min
Episode 170 - Thomas Pound Part 3
The trial of Thomas Pound is the first pirate trial we will look at in any real detail. The first of many. The Old Stone Gaol, smallpox, and horrific battle wounds will all play a role; as will the women of Boston and a copycat pirate named William Coward. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Jun 23, 2020 • 30min
Episode 169 - Thomas Pound Part 2
We're calling it Thomas Pound Part 2, but it's really part 3. Or maybe part 4. Toady we discuss Pound's return to New England and the conflict that ensued. But really, if we're being honest, this episode is about the search for a pirate's favorite treasure: salted pork. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Jun 16, 2020 • 31min
Episode 168 - A Bloodie Flag
This is actually Thomas Pound part 2, but that's not the title we're going with. We're following the Colonial Navy Captain Thomas Baxter as he follows the trail of clues in the wake of the pirates. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Jun 9, 2020 • 33min
Episode 167 - A Limping Privateer
We're back on the American side of the Atlantic, exploring the tenure of Governor Edmund Andros & the doomed Dominion of New England. We also return to the Captain of H.M.S. Mary, Thomas Pound. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Jun 2, 2020 • 31min
Episode 166 - Jacobites
I promise I don't make an 'Execute Order 66' joke anywhere in today's episode. I had to fight the urge though, since this is episode does discuss the rise of a new political and military order in the suddenly emerging world spanning empire. And Jacobites. And guns. I go on about the guns. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
