Dr. Rebecca Simon FRHistS
@piratebeckalex.bsky.social
Historian: pirates/public executions 🏴☠️☠️
Author: Pirates’ Code, Pirate Queens, Why We Love Pirates 📚
See me on: History Channel, NatGeo, Discovery, BBC
TikTok: @piratebeckalex
Author: Pirates’ Code, Pirate Queens, Why We Love Pirates 📚
See me on: History Channel, NatGeo, Discovery, BBC
TikTok: @piratebeckalex
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Destruction of the White House East Wing began today. Here it is in better times with better residents.
October 20, 2025 at 8:09 PM
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?
October 21, 2025 at 12:46 AM
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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The Pirates' Code - Rebecca Simon
YouTube video by York Ideas
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July 1, 2025 at 4:10 PM
ICYMI, you can watch my talk about my book, The Pirates’ Code, for the @yorkfestofideas.bsky.social on YouTube!
youtu.be/b06sRWooshk?...
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
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The Pirates' Code
What was life really like aboard a pirate ship? Join historian Rebecca Simon for a rollicking account of pirates’ codes - the strict rules essential for survival at sea.
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June 10, 2025 at 8:05 PM
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...
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!
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May 1, 2025 at 5:28 PM
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...
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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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Coming soon: Fang Hunters #1
A science fiction comic book series about a batch of eccentric vampire hunters who hop backwater planets and get paid by the fang
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March 31, 2025 at 9:17 PM
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...
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] 🗃️
source: A Speech made upon the Condemnation of Pirates [Nicholas Trott] 🗃️
March 25, 2025 at 12:38 PM
Amazing phrase describing pirates that I’ve never encountered before: “Beasts of Prey.”
source: A Speech made upon the Condemnation of Pirates [Nicholas Trott] 🗃️
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 🙃
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February 27, 2025 at 5:16 PM
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...
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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"
February 25, 2025 at 1:10 AM
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"
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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!
February 25, 2025 at 2:16 AM
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!
February 23, 2025 at 9:35 PM
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!
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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???
Where the hell is Shiri???
February 20, 2025 at 11:21 PM
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???
Where the hell is Shiri???
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Am very much looking forward to reading @nmkennedy.bsky.social @joplingn.bsky.social @piratebeckalex.bsky.social
I enjoyed reading @mooregraham.bsky.social 's open access article on English piracy and the Newfoundland cod fishery over the weekend (I'm working through a rather excessive periodical backlog) - see www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... - and found the way it linked...
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February 10, 2025 at 12:31 PM
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
February 3, 2025 at 6:38 PM
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
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"History's boldest pair of renegades."
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The Revenge of Anne and Mary by Rebecca Simon
Two women take to the sea and become the most feared pirates in the world. Rare archival material brings to life the most authoritative narrative of history’s boldest pair of renegades.
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January 24, 2025 at 1:23 PM
"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
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.
January 21, 2025 at 1:56 AM
This semester, I’m teaching US history, modern world history, modern European history, and pirate history. Time for some epic dismantling.
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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.
January 21, 2025 at 12:19 AM
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
WILD
January 21, 2025 at 1:39 AM
We’re dead.
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BREAKING: Trump signs executive order to withdraw from the World Health Organization
WILD
WILD
January 21, 2025 at 1:25 AM
BREAKING: Trump signs executive order to withdraw from the World Health Organization
WILD
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! 🗃️
January 1, 2025 at 7:26 PM
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! 🗃️
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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!
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If You Had Fought Like a Man, You Needn't Be Hanged Like a Dog: Gender and Piracy During the Golden Age
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December 19, 2024 at 8:51 PM
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...
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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!
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The Pirates’ Code: Laws and Life Aboard Ship
Amazon.com: The Pirates’ Code: Laws and Life Aboard Ship: 9781789149456: Simon, Rebecca: Books
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December 3, 2024 at 8:50 PM
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
a.co/d/8OHQzbH
The Pirates’ Code: Laws and Life Aboard Ship
Amazon.com: The Pirates’ Code: Laws and Life Aboard Ship: 9781789149456: Simon, Rebecca: Books
a.co
December 3, 2024 at 8:46 PM
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
a.co/d/8OHQzbH
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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…🏴☠️🗃️
November 23, 2024 at 2:10 AM
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…🏴☠️🗃️
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November 24, 2024 at 8:21 PM