ICYMI, you can watch my talk about my book, The Pirates’ Code, for the @yorkfestofideas.bsky.social on YouTube! youtu.be/b06sRWooshk?...

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 yorkfestivalofideas.com/2025/calenda...

The #Kickstarter has gone live! Pledge your support for the first comic issue of Fang Hunters, a group of intergalactic vampire hunters! www.kickstarter.com/projects/nat...

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! www.kickstarter.com/projects/nat...

Amazing phrase describing pirates that I’ve never encountered before: “Beasts of Prey.” source: A Speech made upon the Condemnation of Pirates [Nicholas Trott] 🗃️

GOP Sen Mike Lee suggests using privateers to take on the cartel at the US border. Because this has always been a great idea in history 🙃 www.abc4.com/news/nationa...

Saw a cybertruck and my son asked why Elon Musk would think that looked good and I said "remember that drug they gave you at the hospital when you broke your arm, and you got scared and said everyone had 4 eyes? he takes that all the time"

This spring my colleague Rachel and I will teach for the 3rd time out gender studies class at a women’s prison. We would appreciate any donations to provide folders, notebooks, and pens for our incarcerated students. To support them, venmo Rachel at Rachel-Leah. Many thanks!

After 8 years, I have finally finished the first draft of my pirate novel! I began writing it in August of 2017. The idea came to me 2015 when I read a particularly interesting trial from the Old Bailey Online. It's been a long road with many stops & starts, other articles & books, but here we are!

BREAKING: Israel has just confirmed that the small bodies delivered today are Kfir and Ariel, but the adult body was not Shiri Bibas. Where the hell is Shiri???

Am very much looking forward to reading @nmkennedy.bsky.social @joplingn.bsky.social @piratebeckalex.bsky.social

Thank you to the You’re Dead To Me podcast to help make me an expert to give today’s lecture in my brand-new-never-taught-before class. @gregjenner.bsky.social

"History's boldest pair of renegades." Today's article pick from Damn History, a free monthly newsletter for readers/writers of #popularhistory. Congrats to writer @piratebeckalex.bsky.social! Subscribe to Damn History: buff.ly/3CqxZ0z www.trulyadventure.us/revenge

This semester, I’m teaching US history, modern world history, modern European history, and pirate history. Time for some epic dismantling.

I’m just going to say that AOC is the acting leader of the Democratic Party until someone proves otherwise. At least insofar as she is responding to the moment with leadership.

We’re dead.

BREAKING: Trump signs executive order to withdraw from the World Health Organization WILD

Hello fellow historians! I will be teaching a lower-division World History Since 1500 class for the first time. I’ve researched textbooks and found several but before I commit, has anyone who’s taught this class have a favorite to recommend? Many thanks! 🗃️

Did you know my masters thesis on gender and piracy is available in paperback??? Discovery what drove some women to a life of piracy during The Golden Age 🏴‍☠️🏴‍☠️🏴‍☠️ Tap the link below to order! www.amazon.com/dp/B0CSFGFCD...

If you buy a copy, send me a pic and I’ll send you a FREE signed bookplate!

Just in time for the gift-giving holidays, you can buy my book, The Pirates’ Code: Laws and Life Aboard Ship, in paperback in both the UK and USA! a.co/d/8OHQzbH

The cat’s out the bag! I’m so excited I can finally announce that @lhistorienne.bsky.social and I are writing a book together! “Pirates and Privateering in 50 Objects”, examining the relationship between material culture and the maritime world! Stay tuned…🏴‍☠️🗃️

#UnJourUnePhoto #Photovember 23/11 Lecture 📓☠️ #history - The pirates'code from Rebecca Simon 🤩

That's a winning combination :) Best of luck with the project and I look forward to reading it :) Bumping to the #MaritimeHistory feed :)

The cat’s out the bag! I’m so excited I can finally announce that @lhistorienne.bsky.social and I are writing a book together! “Pirates and Privateering in 50 Objects”, examining the relationship between material culture and the maritime world! Stay tuned…🏴‍☠️🗃️

So @piratebeckalex.bsky.social & I have been keeping a secret that we can now share: we’re writing a book together! “Pirates & Privateers in 50 Objects” will explore how material culture can provide an insight into maritime commerce raiding across time & space. 🏴‍☠️ #PirateHistory

I said pirates never buried treasure.

Did I spend too much money ordering this? Yes. Do I care? Absolutely not. 🗃️🏴‍☠️

A day of doing some pirate work brought me to the oldest liquor store in America 🗃️

Everyone can have a long century if they want. I'm not taking away people's pretty things. But the eighteenth century is the LONGEST and also the first out of the gate with this trick. We've got Milton; we've got Austen; even late Wordsworth. Gaze on our works and despair.

Getting close to Halloween and of course the @nytimes crossword had to pick the most sadistic pirate as a clue.

By the age of 30, you should have: - a Bluesky account - a favorite spoon - an account on Twitter that you can't quite bring yourself to delete but you know in your heart that the site will most likely get seized by an international agency at some point & get closed completely - back pain

Quick pirate break to plug the first issue of my husband’s comic book series, Fang Hunters, available as a free PDF on his website! Sci-fi, vampire hunting, and sentient spaceships galore! hotdamncomics.ck.page/freecomic?fb...

Debunking pirate mythology with @lhistorienne.bsky.social & @piratebeckalex.bsky.social this week on the Historians At The Movies Podcast

That's a cool way of linking the history :) Bumping to the #PirateHistory feed :)

Video game fans, if you want to learn about the history of pirates while playing your favorite pirate games, check out the first episode of the new season of Won't You Be My Gamer on PBS SoCal where I review Skull and Bones for accuracy! www.youtube.com/watch?v=V_8b...

Hit the 100K milestone of my pirate novel! 7 years in the making and the first draft is allllllllllmost done!

There’s using a cafe as a place to do some work, and there’s using a cafe as a freakin office

There was quite an exciting sighting at Vroman’s Bookstore in Pasadena last night - a copy of my book, The Pirates’ Code in the military history section! If you swing by, you can buy the signed copy. 🏴‍☠️🗃️

Well, that shivers me timbers.

Female pirate alert in today’s @latimes.com crossword puzzle! 🗃️

Oops, one correction I need to make is that you’ll hear me say Treasure Island was published in the 1780s when, of course, I meant the 1880s. Oral muscle memory after saying 18th century/1700s several times!

A few weeks ago I had the best time to speak to Suzannah Lipscomb about the female pirates Anne Bonny and Mary Read. This is one of my favorite topics to discuss so give it a listen here! podfollow.com/not-just-the...

Hello historian/academia hive-mind! I’ll be teaching a hybrid class for the first time, meeting once a week in person. Would love some suggestions of how to structure it. Lecture in person + online work? Online lecture vids + class discussion? Any suggestions much appreciated! 🗃️

A level of pettiness to which we can all aspire. Resident of Seaside, California was ordered to build a fence to hide from view the boat he parks next to his house. He complied.

Almost 7 years after starting my pirate-y novel, I'm finally nearing the finish line of my (very rambling) first draft. This book WILL be finally finished in 2024! #piratehistory

Heath Ledger. Shannyn Sossamon. Jousting. Chaucer. Nude Paul Bettany. Queen. Bowie. Poetry. A lance, hello. You, me, @tlecaque.bsky.social @greenleejw.bsky.social @waymack.bsky.social & the greatest medieval film ever made. A KNIGHT'S TALE on #HATM Podcast. NOW. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/e...

New and beautiful conference program for #ASECS2024: asecs.org/preliminary-... AV info and accessibility copies can also be found on that page. *Very* minor changes (like room reassignments) might still happen.

Want to see me break down 8 pirates movies and tv shows? I sat down with Insider to do just that! Watch here 👇 youtu.be/5eyGS92JInY?...

Want to see me break down 8 pirates movies and tv shows? I sat down with Insider to do just that! Watch here 👇 youtu.be/5eyGS92JInY?...