Living Legends

Dick Turpin has been called the English cowboy, the epitome of a glamorous, mounted criminal. As a member of the infamous Gregory gang, he was the mos...

The real Richard Whittington was a medieval businessman who made his money importing luxury textiles and gained royal favour by lending money to the C...

Robin Hood is England's most celebrated legendary hero. Supremely brave, resourceful and loyal, he stands for the retribution of wrong in a corrupt so...

For over 150 years a flourishing trade in bodysnatching went on in Britain, supplying corpses for medical dissection. In 1834 this traffic was brought...

Guy Fawkes , ' the devil in the vault ', arrested in the nick of time as he stands poised to blow up the entire leadership of Jacobean England-one of...

The real Captain Kidd was a merchant sea-captain, a man of property and an honoured citizen of New York. He was 50 when he was given the King's commis...