Following our Sunday extravaganza with Gideon Defoe and Aardman, Mark Steeds (Long John Silver Trust) and members of Bristol Radical History Group debate with the academics to thrash out the reality and defend the tales.
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Subject Index: Pirates
Gideon Defoe & Peter Lord Pirates! Adventures with scientists...and historians!
At The MShed
Pirates and adventurers take over the Harbourside to tell us who they were, what they did and why. The author and the film-maker arrive by ship to the MShed to show us how they turned a cracking, madcap novel into a blockbuster Aardman film, with BBC Bristol’s Steve Yabsley as your host. Have your books signed by Gideon Defoe who...
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Pirates
Pictures of some notable pirates.
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BRHW 2007 - Pirates At The Seven Stars
Booze, music and merriment at The Seven Stars . This was the final event of Bristol Radical History Week 2007 Pirate Day.
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No Quarter
No Quarter is an excellent zine from Calgary, Canada that explores radical history and its connections to a radical present from an anarchist perspective and from outside the academy. It is an unusual and innovative use of the 'zine' medium to investigate hidden history. Past topics have included radical pirates, social banditry, anarchist...
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Pirate Boat Trip
Tour the pirate landmarks of Bristol Harbour in the company of historian Mark Steeds and the cider-fuelled Surfin' Turnips. Each tour lasts one hour.
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Salty Tales
Join Jess Paul and Martin Maudsley for stories about smugglers and pirates. AAAARRR! Kids (and adults) are weclome to come in fancy dress. Please can adults accompany children as this is event is not a creche facility.
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Pirates, Piracy & Smuggling
The Real Pirates Of The Caribbean - Marcus Rediker
Professor of History at the University of Pittsburgh (USA) and the author of...
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Treasure Island
Disney's adaptation of Robert Louis Stephenson's classic tale. Newton, in splendid form, arguably gives the best big screen characterisation of literature's most famous unidexter. Join such legends as Ben Gunn, Israel Hands, Jim Hawkins and Blind Pew in this ripping yarn.
1950, 96 mins
Starring : Robert Newton, Bobbie Driscoll
Directed by : Byron...
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Bristol & The Revolutionary Atlantic
A Spot in Time: The Opposition between Terror and the Commons in the Perspective of the Atlantic Revolutions - Peter Linebaugh
Was the coincidence on 2 April 1792 in the attempts to abolish the African slave trade and to make the English working class 'a spot of time', to paraphrase William Wordsworth, where vivifying virtue may restore our minds...
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