Telling the real story of pirates like Bartholomew Roberts, the last and most successful of the great pirate captains, drawing on a mixture of living history and story telling skills, visits from Black Bart can evoke all the excitement and romance of the so called “Golden age of piracy”
My pirate school visits are supported by a large selection of carefully recreated and in some cases original artefacts from the early 18th century period giving the children a chance to handle objects and form their own impressions.
While accuracy is of course important in my living history work, pirate school visits are also designed to evoke the adventurous image of the pirates, as captured in literature such as Treasure Island, and is a particularly good way of engaging both boys and girls on this topic.
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