I am currently doing some research into the activities of the Turkish and North African Barbary Pirate slave trader raids on the coasts of England and Ireland in the early seventeenth century. There is very little published in Britain on this subject, even locally in the two counties most affected in England, Devon and Cornwall, as it seems to be a taboo subject.
I would be grateful for any references forum members could give to me, beyond the usual sources of Wikipaedia etc.