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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May 26, 2020 • 36min
Episode 165 - Sarah & John
The Glorious Revolution of 1688, the real Revolution, was not of armies and kings but of Parliaments and politics and people. Today we discuss, arguably, the two most important people in that story and in English politics moving forward. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
May 19, 2020 • 41min
Episode 164 - Thomas Pound Part 1
This is the story of a promising young Captain in the Royal Navy named Thomas Pound. He was involved, or at least informed, in all the major pirate events of the mid 1680s. Just a good, honest, patriotic naval captain fighting pirates. Yep. Don't look up his Wikipedia page. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
May 12, 2020 • 38min
Episode 163 - A Race of Evildoers
We're finishing up with Thomas Paine, Jan Willems, and George Wright. For now. This is our penultimate step to get the board set up for the big event: 1688. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
May 5, 2020 • 41min
Episode 162 - What's in a Name?
This is the story of one pirate named Thomas. We've met him before, but only in passing. Today we get well acquainted with the first in a long line of pirates named Thomas: Thomas Paine. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Apr 28, 2020 • 35min
Episode 161 - Step Lightly
The effects of the Stuart Restoration and the first two Anglo-Dutch Wars on New England and Chesapeake Bay would have far reaching consequences in the world of the pirates. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Apr 21, 2020 • 42min
Episode 160 - Wicked & Unrighteous Practices
We're taking off at a run and covering New England's pirate problem through the Thirty Years War and the First Anglo-Dutch War. I call it a bullet point episode to get us to the major New England pirate events of the 1660s and 1670s. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Apr 7, 2020 • 40min
Episode 159 - A Sea Highwayman
Today we continue our look at New England. Puritan divisions, Indigenous politics, war, finally culminating in the tale of the first New England pirate: Dixey Bull. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Mar 31, 2020 • 32min
Episode 158 - North American Colonization
We're taking a very broad look at the arrival of Europeans into the North American world from about 1500 to 1630. From Newfoundland to New France, Carolina to New Netherland, and finally New England. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Mar 24, 2020 • 45min
Episode 157 - Rascally Fellows of Desperate Fortunes
This is the conclusion of the drama on the Chesapeake. Richard Ingle, William Claiborne, Leonard Calvert, and Thomas Cornwaleys all converge in a bout of pillage and violence in 1644 known as The Plundering Time. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Mar 17, 2020 • 35min
Episode 156 - High Treason
The English Civil War arrived in America when a trader named Richard Ingle was accused of Parliamentarian sympathies. Today's drama will set off the first wave of piracy in English North America - a period known as The Plundering Time. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
