Britain's Outlaws: Highwaymen, Pirates and Rogues
Rogues Gallery
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18th century Britain seems to have been filled with a fascinating rogues’ gallery of fraudsters and villains. In this enlightening history documentary, Sam Willis investigates some of these criminals such as thief Jack Sheppard, so notorious that a quarter of a million people witnessed his hanging. And Mary Toft, who convinced no less than King George I that she had given birth to rabbits!