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S1E1:Knights of the Road: The Highwayman's Story

Britain's Outlaws: Highwaymen, Pirates and Rogues

23 Nov 2015TV-14

A new breed of gentleman criminal rose out of the ashes of the English Civil War: the highwayman. These glamorous gangsters were heavily romanticized in literature, with heroes such as Dick Turpin. But, as historian Sam Willis discovers in this illuminating history documentary, they became a social menace. Underneath the dashing image of stylish robbers on horseback lay a far darker reality.