By pure coincidence, I'm going to be posting two different series interleaved on the blog for the next month or so. They're quite different in nature! The Lesbian Historic Motif Project will be looking into the mythology around early 18th century pirates Anne Bonny and Mary Read (starting with this post), while an entire separate blog series will be starting shortly presenting The Theory of Related-ivity: A History and Analysis of the Best Related Work Hugo Category. What the two have in common is a love for doing a deep dive into source data, analyzing it, then explaining my conclusions to the general public. In the case of the General History of the Pirates, I'm not unearthing any new data, and the analysis is more a matter of trying to make sense of how a myth was created and how we can tell it's a myth. But in the case of the Hugo analysis (which was mostly a fun mental exercise), I've put together a discussion that goes into more detail than has ever previously been done (as far as I can tell). I hope readers don't get too much mental whiplash between the two!
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