The Collections
Three Collections are open
How a privateer became a pirate, how the pirates became a war, and how the war ended the age.
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Collection I · Nine roomsCaptain Kidd
A royal commission, a disputed voyage, and a trial missing its best evidence. From the commission under the Great Seal to Execution Dock, with the documents in view the whole way.
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Collection II · Eight roomsBartholomew Roberts and the Pirate War
How the most successful crew of the age governed itself, and what it took to destroy it. From an election off the African coast to the largest mass execution of the Golden Age.
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Collection III · Nine roomsThe End of the Golden Age
The pardon, the governor, the law and the gallows: the machinery that closed the age, and the Victorian who named it long after it was over.
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Each Collection is a walk through numbered rooms, built on the documents themselves. Any room is a fair starting point, though the story reads best in order.