This information website exists as a reference to anyone with an interest in piracy. Focusing mainly on the Golden Age (1700-30), the archive contains 28 biographies of famous pirates and a few other interesting characters, as well as details of the major Caribbean pirate strongholds.

If you are unsure as to what you are looking for, the piracy timeline provides summaries of major piratical events from 1400BC when ocean-going trade was in its infancy, to the mid-nineteenth century when the European superpowers commissioned steam-powered pirate hunters.

Details of all sources, together with information on where to find out more, are published on the sources and weblinks pages.