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A Night Aboard Blackbeard’s Ship | Pirate History for Sleep
Season 1
Episode 15
Published 1 month, 1 week ago
Description
A calm, carefully researched pirate history sleep story aboard Blackbeard’s Queen Anne’s Revenge — imagined at anchor in the Caribbean in early 1718.
Tonight, drift through the everyday world of an eighteenth-century sailing ship: timber and rope, simple meals, quiet work, sleeping spaces and the sound of water against the hull, while exploring the history behind Blackbeard and his famous flagship.
Historical records and archaeology inform the episode, but the listener’s journey aboard the ship is imagined. Before Blackbeard’s company captured the vessel and renamed it in 1717, Queen Anne’s Revenge had sailed as the French slave-trading ship La Concorde — a part of its history this story acknowledges rather than omits.
Told slowly and gently for sleep, relaxation and quiet late-night listening. There is nothing you need to remember and nowhere you need to get to. Simply settle in and let the ship and the water carry you towards sleep.
Sleep Stories from the Pioneers is a series of calm, research-led journeys through history, philosophy, psychology and science.
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Tonight, drift through the everyday world of an eighteenth-century sailing ship: timber and rope, simple meals, quiet work, sleeping spaces and the sound of water against the hull, while exploring the history behind Blackbeard and his famous flagship.
Historical records and archaeology inform the episode, but the listener’s journey aboard the ship is imagined. Before Blackbeard’s company captured the vessel and renamed it in 1717, Queen Anne’s Revenge had sailed as the French slave-trading ship La Concorde — a part of its history this story acknowledges rather than omits.
Told slowly and gently for sleep, relaxation and quiet late-night listening. There is nothing you need to remember and nowhere you need to get to. Simply settle in and let the ship and the water carry you towards sleep.
Sleep Stories from the Pioneers is a series of calm, research-led journeys through history, philosophy, psychology and science.
🌙 Prefer the full extended sleep versions with hours of gentle nighttime ambience?
Explore Sleep Stories from the Pioneers on YouTube:
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLRypv-XVJDZk
☕ Support Sleep Stories from the Pioneers:
https://ko-fi.com/pioneersofhumanbehaviour
🌐 Explore Pioneers of Human Behaviour:
https://pioneersofhumanbehaviour.com/
Sleep well. 🌙
Stories to fall asleep to. Ideas worth waking up with.