On Saturday 26th September BRHG will be staging some events in Bridport.
12.00pm-2.00pm The Town Hall: Steve Mills and Kev Davis talk about social crime and punishment, and smuggling in Poole.
2.00pm Bucky Doo Square: The recreation of a satirical pirate trial as related in Villains of all Nations and Johnson’s History of Piracy, plus some gallows speeches by pirates etc.
Other oddities include a ‘noose tying’ workshop, John Gregory’s hanging poems and pirate stuff for kids.
In the evening Who’s Afear’d and the Boothill All Stars will be playing at The Ropemakers.