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Where to watch "Britain's Outlaws: Highwaymen, Pirates and Rogues"
3. Rogues Gallery
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In the final episode, Sam looks at urban crime, fraud, and corruption in the 18th century, uncovering a fascinating rogues gallery of charmers, fraudsters, and villains. Charmers like thief Jack Sheppard, so notorious that almost a quarter of a million people turned up to witness his hanging.
2. Pirates
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Sam takes to the high seas in search of the swashbuckling pirates of the golden age of piracy during the early 18th century. Following in the wake of the infamous Captain Kidd, Blackbeard, Calico Jack and others, Sam charts the devastating impact these pirates had during colonial expansion.
1. Knights of the Road: The Highwayman's Story
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Sam begins with the arrival of a new breed of gentleman criminals 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.