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What does a carved coconut shell have to do with one of the most deadly pirates in history? Dr Robert Blyth follows the story of Bartholomew Roberts, and the 'forgotten pirate hunter' Captain Chaloner Ogle
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A series of illustrations by Livia Giorgina Carpineto brings the world of notorious pirate queen Zheng Yi Sao to life
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Carved wooden letter knife (Knife)
Plain writing paper (Writing paper)
Sutures
Two crab-eater seals on the ice, Weddell Sea (Glass plate negative)
A distant bow view of 'Endurance' (1912) frozen into the ice floe (Glass plate negative)
'Endurance' (1912) in the ice (Glass plate negative)
A view along the shore with penguins in the foreground, South Georgia (Glass plate negative)
Looking across newly formed ice with 'Endurance' (1912) on the distant horizon (Glass plate negative)
'Endurance' heeled to port by the ice (Glass plate negative)
Captain Worsley standing by a large pressure ridge (Glass plate negative)
A Windsor "Popular" Model 5 zither banjo belonging to Dr Leonard Hussey (Banjo)
Leather wallet (Wallet)
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Pages from Encyclopedia Britannia (Book pages)
Set of wooden pegs (Pegs)
A very distant broadside view of 'Endurance' (1912) beset in ice (Glass plate negative)
Cape Pigeons afloat off South Georgia (Glass plate negative)
Hussey and James working in the laboratory onboard 'Endurance' (1912) (Glass plate negative)
Polar Medal 1904 (Polar medal)
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