Talk: Women Warriors of the Waves, by Rebecca James
Channel: ChawtonHouse
Date: 2020-05-31

The high seas were a dangerous place during the Golden Age of Piracy. Yet Anne Bonny and Mary Read were famously just as violent and ruthless as their male counterparts. Discover exciting imagery featuring these extraordinary women and the myths surrounding their legend in this online talk.

Rebecca James is a South, West and Wales Doctoral Training Partnership sponsored PhD researcher at the University of Southampton and Cardiff University. Her area of research is eighteenth-century pirates.

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