The Crew

As is the case in many re-enactment groups, some of our members re-enact other periods to keep things interesting. It isn’t practical to be a complete time tart, as you’d need a great deal of kit to do a full range of historical periods, so a number of us have selected ‘The Golden Age of Piracy’ as a second historical period.

Pirate re-enacting tends towards smaller, less formal events than our medieval re-enactment, and can be a lot of fun. As there are generally lots of re-enactors who choose to be pirates, we normally portray militia forces at events.

18thC Gentleman

The Golden age of Piracy is a term loosely used to describe the period from approximately the 1680’s to the 1720’s, when most of the historically famous pirates from history were operating. Pirates like Blackbeard, Captain Kidd and Bartholomew Roberts were active at this time.

 This piracy took place against a background of a huge increase in international trade which provided rich pickings, and the insecurity of two major European wars that spilled over into the colonies, ‘The war of the grand alliance’ from 1688 to 1697, then ‘the war of the spanish succession’ from 1701 to 1714.