Yesterday I met a pirate.

Yes, clickbait, and I apologise :)

Here’s another bit of clickbait which appeared in the London Evening Standard earlier this week.

Actor Laurence Fox has hit out at the inclusion of a Sikh soldier in Oscar-nominated film 1917. Fox said: “There is something institutionally racist about forcing diversity on people in that way.”

How did reading that make you feel?

But let me get back to the pirate. I met him at the BETT Show in ExCel, London. His company ‘Time Capsule Education’ had a stall there. School children love these raconteurs and performers and the out-of-seats learning activities they involve them in.

These people are often historians so I had a question for him.

Were there black pirates?

Yes, there wer...

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