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Back to SearchEpisode 023: Richard Whittingham: The Young Footpad of London's Streets
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Richard Whittingham is barely past boyhood when he abandons his apprenticeship and steps into London's criminal underworld. As L…
10 hours ago
Episode 022: Thomas Reeves: The Notorious Highwayman and Footpad
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Thomas Reeves is raised with every advantage a tradesman's son could hope for: an indulgent father, a respectable apprenticeship…
1 week ago
Episode 021: John Thomson: Sailor Turned Highway Robber
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John Thomson grows up in London among dishonest company, learning the taste of easy money before he ever learns a trade. Lives o…
2 weeks ago
Episode 020: William Burridge: The Soldier Turned Highwayman
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William Burridge grows up strong, handsome, and restless in Northamptonshire, a young man built for the wrestling ring and the c…
3 weeks ago
Episode 019: William Colthouse: The Jacobite Highwayman of Yorkshire
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William Colthouse is a well-educated Yorkshire man with firm religious principles and even firmer political convictions; it is t…
4 weeks ago
Episode 018: James Shaw: Highwayman and Murderer of the Hampstead Road
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James Shaw is a man who cannot settle. Born into a family with the means to set him on a respectable path, he drifts through one…
1 month ago
Episode 017: John Smith: The Soldier Who Pulled the Trigger
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John Smith is a man shaped by war; bold, fierce, and trained to violence on the battlefields of Flanders, he returns to civilian…
1 month, 1 week ago
Episode 016: John Jones: The Young Pickpocket of Holborn
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John Jones is barely a man when he stumbles into the trade that will define him. As Lives of the Most Remarkable Criminals recou…
1 month, 2 weeks ago
Episode 015: Nathaniel Hawes: The Young Highwayman of Finchley Common
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Nathaniel Hawes is barely out of his apprenticeship when he begins stealing from his master's cash box, a slow slide from mischi…
1 month, 3 weeks ago
Episode 014: James Wright: The Weeping Highwayman of the Old Bailey
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A respectable wigmaker on the Old Bailey begins to spend faster than he earns, drawn into pleasures he cannot afford and will no…
2 months ago