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Plymouth Pirate Weekend returns

Following the huge success of 2015, the award winning Plymouth Pirate Weekend returns on 14 and 15 May 2016 for a family fun packed weekend in The Barbican and Sutton Harbour.

Come and see Jonty Depp who will be lurking the cobbled streets and go aboard our real Pirate Ship for free. Take part in a Pirate Trail and see if you can uncover Cap ‘n’ Jack’s hidden clues! Test your pirate...

Talk: The Women Pirates: Image and Reality - John Appleby

Tuesday 7 March, 19:00 Theatre 2, Roland Levinsky Building, Plymouth University £6/£4.20/Friends free Discounts available via the Artory App and free to Plymouth University students via SPiA

Running time: 90 minutes with a 15 minute interval

Senior Lecturer in Early Modern History at Liverpool Hope University, John Appleby, looks at the history of women pirates. He has published widely on aspects of English and Irish maritime and colonial history during the 16th and 17th century and most recently the publication Under the Bloody Flag: Pirates of the Tudor Age (Stroud, 2009...