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Britain's Outlaws: Highwaymen, Pirates and Rogues
Dr. Sam Willis narrates and presents this 3 part documentary series about Highwaymen, Pirates and Roques of a bygone era in Britain. We visit some actual sites along the way.
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Episode 1
Knights of the Road: The Highwayman's Story
59 mins
Sam begins with the arrival of a new breed of gentleman criminal out of the ashes of the English Civil War - the highwayman. Heavily romanticized in literature, these glamorous gangsters became a social menace on the roads and a political thorn in the side of the creaking British state - threatening to steal our wallets and our hearts, but underneath the dashing image of stylish robbers on horseback lay a far darker reality.
