They’ve been portrayed as toothless, wooden-legged cut-throats. But a new exhibition in Cornwall shows there were queer pirates, female pirates, pirates of colour – and they all got a vote (and an equal share of the grog)
The National Maritime Museum Cornwall in Falmouth offers another account in its fascinating new exhibition, Pirates. After paying off his like-minded hearties in Mughal bling, Avery sailed for home. But nearing Cornwall, he and his pirate booty were shipwrecked and lie deep in Davy Jones’s locker.