‘The Real History of Highwaymen in Georgian England | With Mike Loades’
Mike Loades goes behind the mask to uncover the brutal truth about the myth of the highwayman. Unlike many other criminals, they’ve been glamorised and idolised, their names enduring as legends. They are considered by many as dashing romantic heroes, courageous adventurers and champions of the underdog in an unjust society.
The reality was very different. Between the end of the English Civil Wars and the first decades of the 19th century, there was an epidemic of highway robbery in Britain. It was a crime wave that lasted over 100 years.
To carry out his investigation, Mike gets his hands on the tools of the Highwayman’s trade, the horse and the pistol, and explores the huge part popular fiction has played in glorifying these so-called “gentlemen of the road”.
And finally, Mike discovers how society finally got the scourge of highway robbery under control.
Sit back and enjoy an exciting canter through the fascinating real story of highwaymen!
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Police Force Please.
Adam Ant was my favourite highwayman!
Runescape flashbacks intensify.
I suppose the modern equivalent would be the London moped gangs
A dreaded aftermath of being wounded by a flintlock pistol was have the doctor poke around inside one’s body trying to locate the bullet, and complicate matters by mangling the wound. Once located, then there’s the withdrawal of the ball. And all this before germ theory.
Many a time, the operation was a success, but still the patient expired. (Blood loss, shock, pain, and acute infection were the usual.)
Cheers!
Must of been easy if you had the balls ,there wasn't much chance of being caught back then 😂
The roads were quieter on Sunday ,plus dibble take day off 😂
Societies generally create there criminals , especially government who to this day making our people that desperate,having to use foodbanks absolutely diabolical.
Gotta love Mike, he's always on it
Mike was really interesting and bought the subject alive. He actually held a stage coach up using his pistol and horse and was caught by the camera just before a serious robbery took place. He was able to produce a book which gave one step-by-step instructions on how to be a good highwayman. An interesting demonstration showed how a pistol ball could lace the inside of the body with dirty pieces of clothing (in addition to the shot becoming more jagged on impact), leaving the victim mortally wounded, who would subsequently die from sepsis. You also need a good quality , stabled horse which could run fast and had stamina, to escape yeomanry/redcoats. A stabled horse was in much better condition than one which had just been tethered outside.
Mike Loades is always enjoyable to watch
more than just a historian, Mr Loades knows his stuff, he knows the weapons and knows how to use them, he can ride and knows horses, and he looks the part and is absorbed in it, lives it, becomes part of the history himself it is infectious………. in a way I am jealous…….. long live Mr Mike Loades……… and many thanks for all I have learned from watching you….. I am 60, never too old to learn, and you can teach an old dog new tricks…….. hahahaha……. good luck mate
Soon every lupin in the land
Will be in his mighty hand
Stand and deliver for you are a bold deceiver mush a ring dum a do dum a da
Standing against injustice? By committing injustice against anyone who had worked their way out of poverty. :-/
I remember as a kid watching the TV show Dick Turpin staring Richard O'Sullivan, Turpin was a Hero a good guy but when I got older and found out the truth Turpin was an absolute monster.
This is fascinating. More Mike Loades please.
Mike Loades might be the greatest porn name ever😂
Now you need to clean out the grooming gangs.
One of my Ancestors I found out was Hanged at Typurn for Highway Robbery brilliant 💯🤙🏽
Sadly it wasn't Dick Turpin lol
How times have changed. Now British Gas are the highway robbers.
What was the line in Tom Jones that was an answer to stand and deliver? "Deliver what. I'm no traveling midwife." A great line delivered by Edith Evans.
The best highwaymen were the 2 Irishmen from the film Barry Lyndon.
Highwaymen would be a great for a series similar to "Pirates of the Carribean." Given that highwaymen were glamourized like pirates, you could have all kinds of interesting characters and plots.
Mike is brilliant
the truth is far more fascinating than the fantasy,
Either you guys don't actually know, or you're going to be angry right now, because energy is the currency. Energy tapped and collected sexually from women, and then delivered to men from men, sexually. Stand and deliver, at the truck stop, make a show of pretending the valuables are really valuable. These brotherhoods, so tiresome.