@piratebeckalex
Historian: pirates/public executions 🏴☠️☠️ Author: Pirates’ Code, Pirate Queens, Why We Love Pirates 📚 Written for History Today, BBC History Extra, Routledge See me on: History Channel, NatGeo, Discovery, BBC https://rebecca-simon.com
1) who are your favorite women historians on Bluesky? Tagged them here!
Omg so many!!! A few: @kelsapellettiere.com @piratebeckalex.bsky.social @phdrachel.bsky.social @hngreen.bsky.social
2) and what is on the menu at your home tonight?
Wegman’s mushroom & truffle pizza
#HATM
Very cool! Where’s it being published?
For #internationalwomensday, support female authors and learn about amazing historical women! The paperback/2nd edition of my book, Pirate Queens: The Lives of Anne Bonny & Mary Read, is available for pre-order and out Dec. 31!
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In honor of its final season, check out this talk I gave connecting the history of pirates to #Outlander
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Second week into the semester and I’m already behind. No one’s fault but mine. I get a bit too enthusiastic and carried away about the material
The 2nd Edition of 'A New History of Asian America' by Shelley Lee has now published! An expansive, updated synthesis of the Asian American experience, it is essential reading for UG students of #Americanhistory www.routledge.com/A-New-Histor...
Alex Pretti’s coworkers take a moment of silence this morning
We have a timely AMA today with @johnmkinder.bsky.social and Jen Murray on the memory of the Civil War in a polarized America over on @askhistorians.bsky.social- Come check it out!
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CHARLES RAFFERTY The Problem with Early Warnings People don't like to leave a party unless the house is actually on fire. Even then, if the flames are far enough away to be pretty, they'll finish their drink, take one more pass at the hors d'oeuvres. How things happen has always been unclear. Hurricanes begin in a place where no one lives. Agents of the government start to wear masks. Fascism is a word my neighbors won't use yet. They are following the law, they say, and the sirens are coming for someone else.
This hit so fucking hard today.
Found a catalogue of some of my pirate articles today. I’ve moved a couple of times over the last few years so I thought they were lost but NOPE!
I’m always happy to write for anyone about pirates and I have availability if desired! 🏴☠️🗃️
@historytoday.com @historyextra.bsky.social
On the International Day for the Remembrance of the Slave Trade, I am reflecting on my recent trip to Ghana, where I had the privilege to visit Cape Coast Castle, a place I had encountered countless times, but only through records at The National Archives.
Thank you!
Outside of academic history, I’ve completed a first draft of a historical novel about pirates, I paint mandalas, and live in a cute beach town with my comic-book-writer husband and pug
If you don’t know me, I’m a historian of early modern pirates and piracy. I’ve published 3 books and have started a 4th about public executions. You can find my work in History Today, History Extra, and in docs on History Channel, NatGeo, and Discovery
Hi Bluesky! I haven’t been active as a historian on social media in a long time, but I’ve decided it’s time to really reengage in this part of my life. I’m looking forward to reconnecting and connecting with my fellow historians and academics!
If you are inclined to read about funny novels in the 18th century, periods, labor and birth, hysteria etc you can pre-order the book! www.rutgersuniversitypress.org/delaware/bod...
New Publication Alert
Hamlin, Christopher. "Rotten Bodies: Class and Contagion in 18th-Century Britain. By Kevin Siena." The Journal of Modern History, vol. 92, no. 4, 2020, pp. 933–35. JSTOR.
#danieldefoe #defoe #18thCentury #C18th #18thC
I've begun a starter pack of scholars of the early modern Low Countries. Let me know if you want me to add you. #earlymodern 🗃️
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Enter for your chance to win a copy of Ronaldo Angelo Johnson's Entangled Alliances: Racialized Freedom and Atlantic Diplomacy during the American Revolution (Cornell University Press, 2025). The raffle ends this Friday (11/28) at 11:59pm EDT. ageofrevolutions.com/2025/11/24/b...
TOMORROW! Nov. 25, 4 PM PST - come to my FREE virtual talk about pirates in colonial North Carolina and their connection to the Outlander series!
Do you like Outlander? Do you like pirates? Then come to my virtual presentation to discuss piracy in the Outlander series and Colonial America for the Wake County Public Library on Tuesday, Nov 25 at 4/7 PM PST/EST. It will be over Zoom and registration is FREE!
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Oh man I WISH! But alas, I have to work!
Destruction of the White House East Wing began today. Here it is in better times with better residents.
Took my students to the Getty Villa to see Ancient Greek/Roman artifacts today. Who says field trips aren’t for university?
ICYMI, you can watch my talk about my book, The Pirates’ Code, for the @yorkfestofideas.bsky.social on YouTube!
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TOMORROW! June 11, 6 pm BST/10 am PST, come to a free online webinar to see me speak about my book and all things Pirates’ Code at the York Festival of ideas! Get you ticket at this link. @yorkfestofideas.bsky.social @reaktionbooks.bsky.social
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The #Kickstarter has gone live! Pledge your support for the first comic issue of Fang Hunters, a group of intergalactic vampire hunters!
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Non-history plug: If you like comic books and want to read about a rag-tag group of intergalactic vampire hunters (think Firefly meets Cowboy Bebop meets Buffy), please support my husband’s Kickstarter campaign by following his page! officially launches May 1st!
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Amazing phrase describing pirates that I’ve never encountered before: “Beasts of Prey.”
source: A Speech made upon the Condemnation of Pirates [Nicholas Trott] 🗃️
The constitution technically allows it. It’s cited in the article. But it needs to be during active times of conflict. I don’t think cartel work counts, but then again what do I know about that?