Britain's Outlaws: Highwaymen, Pirates and Rogues

The Civil War give way to a new breed of gentleman criminal, robbers on horseback armed with flintlock pistols, known as highwaymen.

The swashbucklers of piracy's golden age, during the early 18th century, have a devastating impact on colonial expansion and become the world's most wanted criminals.

Urban crime and fraud of the 18th century is committed by a gallery of charming rogues, tricksters, and villains, from notorious thief Jack Sheppard to fraudster Mary Toft and smuggler Thomas Benson.