https://sailingtheblackflag.com/changes/ What was published, placed or corrected on the Archives. en-gb Fri, 18 Sep 2026 09:00:00 GMT https://sailingtheblackflag.com/search/sailingtheblackflag.com/changes/2026-09-18/published/search-seventy-eight-rebuilt-records-landed Fri, 18 Sep 2026 09:00:00 GMT Thirty-nine people, thirty-four ships and five records re-founded from the documents are now in the Archives, with 1,396 new checked claims behind them. https://sailingtheblackflag.com/evidence/sailingtheblackflag.com/changes/2026-09-08/corrected/evidence-no-encyclopaedias-the-rule-applied-in-full Tue, 08 Sep 2026 09:00:00 GMT An encyclopaedia is never a source on the Archives. Every claim that rested only on Wikipedia or another encyclopaedia has been withdrawn, and with them the claims resting only on unsigned tourism, municipal and hobby pages: 188 claims across 68 records, and the sentences they carried cut or rewritten on 130 pages; a further 308 claims that named such a carrier beside a document now cite the document alone. Where a fact has gone, the record says what would settle it. https://sailingtheblackflag.com/evidence/sailingtheblackflag.com/changes/2026-09-02/corrected/evidence-a-rule-about-sources-and-what-it-changed Wed, 02 Sep 2026 09:00:00 GMT Wikipedia and encyclopaedia articles are no longer carried as sources behind a claim. 250 claims that rested on nothing else now read Unverified until the document behind them has been read, and the records that carry them say so. Fifty-eight places where two records disagreed have been settled on one rule: the record whose subject the fact is decides, and where the sources genuinely differ the difference is now carried on both pages. https://sailingtheblackflag.com/collections/sailingtheblackflag.com/changes/2026-09-02/corrected/collections-straight-quotes-throughout Wed, 02 Sep 2026 09:00:00 GMT The 182 curly-quote entities left in the Bellamy, Every and Pirate Government Collections and the Every trial source page are now the site's straight quotes. https://sailingtheblackflag.com/events/killing-of-william-moore-1697/sailingtheblackflag.com/changes/2026-09-02/exhibit/events-killing-of-william-moore-1697-the-1701-trial-print-on-the-killing-of-william-moore Wed, 02 Sep 2026 09:00:00 GMT A second exhibit on the killing of William Moore: the title page of the Kidd trial print, with Murther before Piracy. https://sailingtheblackflag.com/places/the-red-sea/sailingtheblackflag.com/changes/2026-09-02/exhibit/places-the-red-sea-the-1696-trial-print-on-the-red-sea-record Wed, 02 Sep 2026 09:00:00 GMT A second exhibit on the Red Sea: the title page of The Tryals of Joseph Dawson and five others, the record through which the captures of August 1695 reached an English court. https://sailingtheblackflag.com/places/ocracoke/sailingtheblackflag.com/changes/2026-09-02/exhibit/places-ocracoke-the-blackbeard-plate-of-1724-on-the-ocracoke-record Wed, 02 Sep 2026 09:00:00 GMT A second exhibit on Ocracoke Inlet: the engraved plate from Johnson's General History, placed beside the passage on what the accounts will not agree on. https://sailingtheblackflag.com/themes/sailingtheblackflag.com/changes/2026-09-02/published/themes-thirty-three-new-themes Wed, 02 Sep 2026 09:00:00 GMT The Themes section grows from five records to thirty-eight: careening and havens, death and the gallows, flags, justice and discipline, marooning, prizes and fencing, recruitment and forced men, plunder shares, the slave trade nexus, naval suppression, alcohol and food, cargoes and values, charts, disease, hurricanes, mutiny and desertion, navigation, privateering, prize law, ship construction, weapons, shipworm, the Admiralty courts, captain election and removal, gender disguise, impressment, maroon communities, pirate ports, race and maritime labour, religion at sea, trials and defence rights, violence and coercion, and women at sea. 233 checked claims behind them. https://sailingtheblackflag.com/open-questions/sailingtheblackflag.com/changes/2026-09-02/feature/open-questions-open-questions-and-what-changed Wed, 02 Sep 2026 09:00:00 GMT Everything the Archive is still working on, gathered from every record; and this page, with a feed. https://sailingtheblackflag.com/trails/sailingtheblackflag.com/changes/2026-09-02/feature/trails-trails Wed, 02 Sep 2026 09:00:00 GMT Six routes through the records: four guided readings, a question put to you as the jury, and Blackbeard tested against the record. https://sailingtheblackflag.com/map/sailingtheblackflag.com/changes/2026-09-02/feature/map-the-map Wed, 02 Sep 2026 09:00:00 GMT All 35 places pinned on the Atlantic and Indian Ocean basins, with the events and people at each, and three voyages drawn as reconstructions. https://sailingtheblackflag.com/timeline/sailingtheblackflag.com/changes/2026-09-02/feature/timeline-the-timeline Wed, 02 Sep 2026 09:00:00 GMT All 33 dated events on one scale, 1670 to 1730, with strands for the Collections and filters by person, place and theme. https://sailingtheblackflag.com/about/method/sailingtheblackflag.com/changes/2026-09-02/corrected/about-method-plain-words-for-confidence Wed, 02 Sep 2026 09:00:00 GMT Confirmed, Very likely, Likely, Possible, Disputed, Speculative and Unverified replace the register's terms wherever a reader sees a grade; 269 phrases in the running text of 80 pages were reworded to match. https://sailingtheblackflag.com/evidence/sailingtheblackflag.com/changes/2026-09-02/feature/evidence-the-evidence-layer Wed, 02 Sep 2026 09:00:00 GMT Numbered markers on every record lead to the claims behind it; Show the evidence puts them beside the text; the evidence page lists all 1,010 claims with filters. https://sailingtheblackflag.com/search/sailingtheblackflag.com/changes/2026-09-02/feature/search-full-text-search Wed, 02 Sep 2026 09:00:00 GMT Every page searchable by name, alias, ship, place, event or phrase, with a search field in the header of every page. https://sailingtheblackflag.com/events/rogers-takes-nassau-1718/sailingtheblackflag.com/changes/2026-09-02/exhibit/events-rogers-takes-nassau-1718-the-nassau-dispatch-of-november-1718 Wed, 02 Sep 2026 09:00:00 GMT The official account of Woodes Rogers's arrival, from the London Gazette. https://sailingtheblackflag.com/places/gardiners-island/sailingtheblackflag.com/changes/2026-09-02/exhibit/places-gardiners-island-gardiners-bay-on-des-barress-chart-of-1779 Wed, 02 Sep 2026 09:00:00 GMT The anchorage as the first detailed printed survey drew it, eighty years after Kidd's call. https://sailingtheblackflag.com/events/kidd-venture-1695/sailingtheblackflag.com/changes/2026-09-02/exhibit/events-kidd-venture-1695-knellers-portrait-of-john-somers Wed, 02 Sep 2026 09:00:00 GMT The Lord Keeper who sealed the grant of pirates' goods and held a share in it. https://sailingtheblackflag.com/events/act-of-grace-1717/sailingtheblackflag.com/changes/2026-09-02/exhibit/events-act-of-grace-1717-the-london-gazette-proclamations-of-1717-and-1718 Wed, 02 Sep 2026 09:00:00 GMT The Act of Grace and its extension, as the government printed them. https://sailingtheblackflag.com/places/sailingtheblackflag.com/changes/2026-09-01/exhibit/places-58-exhibits-placed-on-the-new-records Tue, 01 Sep 2026 09:00:00 GMT Open-rights images, each with a zoom copy for the Examine viewer, on every new place, event and source page that had one. https://sailingtheblackflag.com/sources/sailingtheblackflag.com/changes/2026-09-01/published/sources-24-primary-source-records Tue, 01 Sep 2026 09:00:00 GMT Trial pamphlets, state papers, company records, newspapers, charts and archaeology, each with what it can and cannot tell. https://sailingtheblackflag.com/institutions/sailingtheblackflag.com/changes/2026-09-01/published/institutions-institutions-a-new-section-of-23-records Tue, 01 Sep 2026 09:00:00 GMT The companies, courts, councils and markets that made, hunted, tried and profited from the pirates. https://sailingtheblackflag.com/events/sailingtheblackflag.com/changes/2026-09-01/published/events-28-event-records Tue, 01 Sep 2026 09:00:00 GMT Dated events from the sack of Panama in 1671 to the last campaigns of 1726 to 1728, each carrying a date with its precision. https://sailingtheblackflag.com/places/sailingtheblackflag.com/changes/2026-09-01/published/places-33-place-records Tue, 01 Sep 2026 09:00:00 GMT From Anguilla to Whydah: the harbours, forts, courts and shorelines of the story, each with the events that happened there. https://sailingtheblackflag.com/sources/kidd-french-passes/sailingtheblackflag.com/changes/2026-07-24/exhibit/sources-kidd-french-passes-the-french-pass-of-the-quedagh-merchant Fri, 24 Jul 2026 09:00:00 GMT The pass Kidd carried, on the source page for the French passes.