Welcome To The
UK Pirate Brotherhood
Web site

The Brotherhood was founded as a Yahoo E-group in 2002 in order to enable Pirate Re enactors to communicate with each other.

Pirates and the age of piracy hold a great fascination for many people. Although the UK Pirate Brotherhood was created as a resource to enable different Pirate enactment societies to communicate with each other, it has now become a place where everybody with an interest in pirates, and the history of the era when pirates ravaged the seas, both in the history books, and in the world of film and fiction, is welcome.

This web site has been created in order to pursue the following aims.

1. To continue to encourage communication and co-operation between different pirate re-enactment societies throughout the country so that they can all continue to benefit from the improved quality and size of shows that this co-operation has generated.
2. To provide access to information that will enable those groups who seek to portray the authentic history of piracy, to improve the quality of their costume and kit.
3. To attract the interest and contribution of re enactors and history enthusiasts who are involved in aspects of 17th & 18th Century, and maritime life during the age of sail, other than Piracy.
4. To create a directory, not only of groups who re-enact pyracy, but also of other maritime interest groups, and of groups involved with other aspects of life during the era known as the Golden Age of Pyracy, from the late 17th Century, to the early 18th Century. For the benefit of anyone wishing to contact these groups, either wanting to join them, or seeking to book them for an event.
5. To foster an interest in the history of the age of sail both Naval and Piratical.

It is intended that the form and contents of this web site will be influenced by the input of those who use it, therefore any suggestions for new features, or input of articles, or pictures, is welcome.
Please send any input that you may have to admin@ukpiratebrotherhood.co.uk

This is an index of the features of this web site, and of features that will hopefully be added in the not to distant future.

The Forum.

The UK Pirate Brotherhood Forum is a discussion group for all things piratical & maritime. This is the heart of the brotherhood, where participants can hold discussions, and ask questions covering a variety of topics. It contains rooms for a number of different subjects, including authenticity & history, weapons & combat, and forthcoming events.
Hopefully the forum will eventually come to perform most of the functions that, at present, are being served by the Yahoo e-group.

To visit the forum,
CLICK HERE

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Logbook & Dispatches.

This will be the place for updates about new contents to the web site, and for any news that may be of interest to the pirate enthusiast.
If you know any topical stories that would be of interest, or if you have attended an event, and would like to send in a report, please send them in HERE

To visit the News page,
CLICK HERE

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Frequently Asked Questions.

This is the place to go if you have any questions concerning what the UK Pirate Brotherhood is all about. If, after reading this section, you still have a question, send me an email, and I will do my best to provide answer for you.

To visit F.A.Q.
CLICK HERE

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The Map.

The map, is a way to show the locations of active groups within the United Kingdom, so that anybody wishing to join a society, or book the services of a group, can see who is around in their area
The location of each group or society listed in the directory, is marked on this map.

To go to the Map,
CLICK HERE

If you would like your organization to be added to the map,
CLICK HERE

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Directory

One of the aims of the UK Pirate Brotherhood, is to create a directory of groups and societies around the country, not only of Re-enactment societies, but of other groups, involved, not just in presentations of pyracy, but also in history, and maritime life during the age of sail. This will enable different groups to contact each other, as well as providing a resource for individuals seeking to find an organization either to join them, or to book their services.

There are currently eight possible categories for the directory.

1. Pirate reenactment societies.
2. Other Maritime re-enactment societies.
3. Other 17th & 18th Century re-enactment societies.
4. Social & Fundraising Groups.
5. Non UK Groups.
6. Bands & Entertainers.
7. Live Action Role play groups.
8. Other.

But if your organization does not fit into any of the above categories, please contact us and we shall create a category for your group.

The Directory is not just a list of organization names. Each contributor has the opportunity to send in information about, and pictures of their group that will be used to create a Mini Web page for that group with full contact details, (including a link to their own web page,) and its own meta tags to attract hits from internet search engines.

Contributors will also be added to the Map, and Links section of this site.

If you would like to Submit details of your group for the directory,
CLICK HERE

To go to the directory page,
CLICK HERE

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Links.

The internet contains a vast number of sites containing information and resources for the pirate enthusiast, from historical pages, to suppliers of historical costume and equipment, to links to other historical societies.
If you know of any web sites that would be of interest to uses of this site, Contribute by clicking HERE

To go to Links,
CLICK HERE

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Calendar

The main function of the calendar is to provide a list of events for the benefit of people who would like to attend this type of show. but it will also create an opportunity for event organizers to publicize their display. and for society organizers to attract other groups to take part in their spectacles.
If you know of any appropriate shows that are taking part in the coming year, send in the details and they will be added to the calendar.

Please CLICK HERE to provide information about a fourth coming event.

To go to Calendar,
CLICK HERE

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E-Group.

The first incarnation of the UK Pirate Brotherhood in 2002 was as a Yahoo email discussion group.
Although most of the functions of the E-Group are now achieved by the different parts of this web site, the group itself still exists, and will probably continue to be used for special announcements.
The Yahoo Group web site also contains links and Photographs from the first five years of the UK Pirate Brotherhood.

To go to the E-Group
CLICK HERE

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The Gallery.

This is a place where you can upload images.
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At present, the Gallery is still under development, and so at this stage it still look a little bit strange, and as yet. You can upload your pictures into this Gallery, but, for the moment, if you want to show thumbnails of your pictures you will have to create them yourself, and upload them into the gallery. (We are working on setting up the gallery program so that it will create its own thumbnails.)
Eventually I intend to use the best of the uploaded images to create albums of pictures in a more accessible format here in the web site

To Enter the Gallery,
CLICK HERE

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Articles

Here is an opportunity for all of you Home Historians and serious researchers to come into your own.
This section will be for anyone who has knowledge that may be useful to the community to write articles that will be published in these pages. So, if you would like to produce a write up of any research or of projects that you have undertaken, Send them in HERE.
When the articles section is opened up, your work will be included.

To go to the Articles Index,
CLICK HERE

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If you think that you have anything that you can contribute to these pages, in any of the sections listed above,
CLICK HERE.
And you will be directed to the contributors page.

If you have any Ideas for features that could be added to this web site, Please email me at

admin@ukpiratebrotherhood.co.uk