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The Jolly Roger, a black flag showing a skuyll and crossbones. (Photo by Henry Guttmann Collection/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Q&A Did all pirates fly the Jolly Roger?

A pirate uses his cutlass to force a bound and blindfolded man to walk the plank

Q&A Was walking the plank a real pirate punishment?

Pirates burying a treasure chest on a beach as their captain looks on

Q&A X marks the spot: did pirates bury their treasure?

A 17th century sketch of a peg-legged pirate walking with the aid of crutches

Q&A Did any real pirates wear eyepatches or have peg legs?

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A portrait of Elizabeth Stuart, painted during the reign of Charles I

Elizabeth Stuart: the treasonous portrait that touted Charles I’s sister for the throne . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Vienna Plague Hospital, 1679. (Getty Images)

What were women’s lives like during the 17th-century plague? . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Malcolm Gaskill The Ruin of All Witches . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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A forgotten witch hunt in New England . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Pod Edmond Smith WL

Goods & globalisation: merchants in Tudor & Stuart England . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Pod Murray Pittock WL

The Jacobites: everything you wanted to know . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Part fifteen in our 20-part series looking at decisive moments of the last 1,000 years in British history explores explores 1700–1749. (Image by Getty Images)

Turning points 1745: The Jacobite rebellion . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Part fourteen in our 20-part series looking at decisive moments of the last 1,000 years in British history explores 1650–1699. (Image by Getty Images)

Turning points 1662: Restoration tragedy . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Part thirteen in our 20-part series looking at decisive moments of the last 1,000 years in British history explores 1600–1649. (Image by Getty Images)

Turning points 1638: The Scottish Revolution . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Vintners in an ale house, 1642. From a broadsheet titled ‘Health to All’, artist unknown. (Photo by Historica Graphica Collection/Heritage Images/Getty Images)

Did Oliver Cromwell ban Christmas? The Puritan assault on Christmas during the 1640s and 1650s

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Rhiannon Davies speaks to Nadine Akkerman about a beloved – but now widely forgotten – Stuart princess.

The Stuart princess who could have deposed Charles I . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.