clarentine | And the (Pirate) Beat Goes On

I stumbled upon a website where you can get scholarly answers to questions about pirates, especially Golden Age pirates, while doing research online. http://www.piratesinfo.com/main.php has a Message Board with a scholarly discussion sub-board, and I've already spotted several other writers doing research there. (There's a "Marcus," who I am imagining is Marcus Rediker; I have two of his published books on my shelf, Villains of All Nations and Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea, both of them well-researched and, in addition, well-written, which as anyone who reads the work of historians knows is not a common trait amongst their books.)

I did copious amounts of research the winter of 2004-2005, which is when I first made Rediker's acquaintance. I'm glad to see him posting to this website, and equally glad to see the tone and emphasis on accuracy and citations in the replies to questions.