@Susan James - it’s a tad late for me, but I wish my chemistry teacher had such enthusiasm as Mr Loades, all those many moons ago. I might have actually learned something.
Can I just say that the outstanding variety of presenters on history hit is what makes it such a brilliant channel. Mike Loades is perfect for this. Thanks History Hit team 👍🏻
My fav is the one with peasants revolt of 1381. Tony hosts it and has frickin Mike loades and Toby capwell and his brother LARPING the peasants journey in the background the entire time it's like an avengers assemble of history docs
Well done Mike! You are absolutely right to highlight the over glamourisation of this type of acquisitive crime.. The sobriquet 'gentlemen of the road' is absurd given the nature of what they did. Well presented as ever! Happy New year everyone. 🌟👍🎉
I've heard that a lot of highwaymen _were_ gentlemen - in the literal sense of minor nobility. Particularly after the Civil War, when those who had backed the wrong side had their lands confiscated and had to find an alternative source of income. But to a noble, actually getting a job was seen as beneath them, so they turned to armed robbery as a more "respectable" alternative.
Id never seen Loades before his amazing chat with Dan about Agincourt and archery etc and hes now one of my favourite history presenters. His passion is infectious
Did you see the one where he trained a small phalanx of pikemen, then tested their resolve by charging at them? Granted, he was alone, on foot, and unarmed; but a screaming Mike Loades at full speed is still nothing to sniff at.
How have I never seen this presenter?His enthusiasm and narration are so engaging. I thought Tony Robinson was the only one to impart knowledge with so much entertainment value! That's my day sorted - I'm going in a binge..not feeling well anyway so now I have the perfect distraction.
He's in a lot of documentaries, although I can't actually think of any. He likely has an IMDB with the info though. He was definitely a historian helped on that historical tv game show where two teams fought each other as controllers of fighting armies, also can't remem.The name
@@h____hchump8941 I believe that the game show was called Time Commanders, and they used the software and gameplay now widely available for a while as the computer strategy game, Rome Total War.
I love this video because all l could think about while watching was that old song Stand and Deliver by Adam and the Ants. A song about a dandy highwayman with a great video.
What a wonderfully detailed and comprehensive documentary ❤ i as many ladies live the idea & fantasy of "The Highwayman" but as the gentleman correctly states making a lady dance af gunpoint is an act of sadism& terror xx
I was a highwayman Along the coach roads i did ride With sword and pistol by my side Many a young maid lost her baubles to my trade, many a soldier shed his lifeblood on my blade The bastards hung me in the spring of '25, but i am still alive.
@@Briselance It's the first verse of 'The highwayman', a song by a group called The Highwaymen, Willie Nelson, Kris Kristofferson, Waylon Jennings and Johnny Cash.
I suspect that there was a very simple reason that highwaymen were popular: The class nature of British society. The main targets of highwaymen would naturally be the upper middle class and richer (due to risk vs reward considerations) and these people were really nasty to the common and lower classes. So, commoners could easily consider a highway robbery a just punishment for the evil of the rich.
more than just a historian, Mr Loades knows his stuff, he knows the weapons and knows how to use them, he can ride and knows horses, and he looks the part and is absorbed in it, lives it, becomes part of the history himself it is infectious.......... in a way I am jealous........ long live Mr Mike Loades......... and many thanks for all I have learned from watching you..... I am 60, never too old to learn, and you can teach an old dog new tricks........ hahahaha....... good luck mate
Mike was really interesting and bought the subject alive. He actually held a stage coach up using his pistol and horse and was caught by the camera just before a serious robbery took place. He was able to produce a book which gave one step-by-step instructions on how to be a good highwayman. An interesting demonstration showed how a pistol ball could lace the inside of the body with dirty pieces of clothing (in addition to the shot becoming more jagged on impact), leaving the victim mortally wounded, who would subsequently die from sepsis. You also need a good quality , stabled horse which could run fast and had stamina, to escape yeomanry/redcoats. A stabled horse was in much better condition than one which had just been tethered outside.
I like that Mike pointed out although people might have found the story of the lady being forced to dance amusing, it was, in fact, a horrible thing to do.
@@veedubbya Rather tragically, it's her ex-fella's stuff. While the relationship seemed so great in 'All the Stations', it came off the rails (so to speak) afterwards and they separated not long after getting married. Awfully sad.
We still have highwaymen here in several states in the US. They are known as Highway Patrol, State Police, Police, or Sheriff's Deputies and they do their dirty work under an absurd legal doctrine called Civil Asset Forfeiture. They stop motorists for any of several real or imagined reasons, check if they are carrying large sums of cash and, if so, seize it under the theory that it MIGHT be used for illegal purposes. Even if no charges are ever filed the victim has to sue to get the money back, often with little success. Very often the amounts taken make the expenses of hiring an attorney more than what they may (or may not) recover.
Way to be a typical American and try to make an episode about English history about YOU…No wonder we have such notorious reputation in Europe and the UK. 🤨 I guarantee you that everyone is sick to death of our politics when they're just trying to enjoy some content about their own country.
Scotland here That sounds completely bogus. Actually, it sounds like you're just bitter because you got nicked by the cops and got in trouble. If you got pulled over and were charged with a traffic offense serious enough to require you retaining legal counsel instead of just using a public defender or paying a fine, that sounds like a you problem, mate. Also nobody cares.
In Australia, Highway men were known as "Bushrangers" and is said to not be exclusive to men. The most famous Bushranger gang was "the Kelly Gang" lead by Ned Kelly who had the highest bounty for a Bushranger in Australian history.
In a world devoid of mental illness I would agree with you, but if you arm the public of a nation today it'll just turn into a murder-infested cesspool like most third-world countries and the US.
It's interesting how good disguising yourself could be for a highwayman. One highwayman stopped a man on horseback only to have the man exclaim that he was a fellow highwayman and therefore should not be robbed. Letting him go the highman retired to a nearby inn only to find the man he had stopped earlier telling everyone how he had fooled the highwayman. As the highwayman was no longer in disguise the man did not recognise him. The highwayman slipped out at dawn and waylaid the man a second time but this time he was wearing a different disguise. When the man again claimed to be a fellow highwayman he was told he would not get away with that a second time and was robbed.
@@Moishe555 LOL Yes, I'm in Connecticut, just off I-95. 20 years after living in Boston for 20 years, also just off I-95. The great thing about that was that on hot days and horrible traffic from Billerica to Boston, I got off and went swimming in Walden Pond, a place I only knew about from Highh School literature class.
These people were dangerous and not to be romanticized. My cousin and I don't follow these types of people or dictator's or political families etc. They always leave out the bad part's in order to sell the gossip papers.
The thing is, some of them primarily targeted the upper echelons of society in a society where most people were very poor - so it’s no wonder they were often idolised by the poor!
Very interesting documentary to watch. I dress up as a Highwayman at pirate festivals in the UK, its fun to do that stand out differently amongst the crowds of pirates.
One more thing I'd add on the matter of muzzleloaders - they used lead balls. Modern ammo is often times jacketed for better penetration, while lead is soft and when it hits anything it deforms and flattens on impact, delivering much more force than if it were to go right through. Somewhat out of proportion and a bit absurd, but it's the difference between getting hit by a really fast going needle and getting hit by a car.
"Right. Hand over all your lupins. I have two pistols here. Admittedly, one of them isn't loaded any more, but the other one is. I'm very good shot. I practise every day. Well, not absolutely every day . . . " Dennis Moore
What was the line in Tom Jones that was an answer to stand and deliver? "Deliver what. I'm no traveling midwife." A great line delivered by Edith Evans.
wow, didn't know such pistols had only such a small recoil.... 🤔😮 14:22 the problem with such a wound: if the bullet is stuck and cannot be removed, you will die by a lead poisoning. that was the reason for many amputated body parts in the wars of that centuries.
We should have more videos like this unlike the usual repeated stories of Jessie James and Billy the kid This is the first documentary of highwaymen I've seen .Well done How about something on dulists and swordmen
Highwaymen would be a great for a series similar to "Pirates of the Carribean." Given that highwaymen were glamourized like pirates, you could have all kinds of interesting characters and plots.
I found out a little while ago that my great great great great great great great grandfather was Dick Turpin. I was wondering about a career move, thanks for all the tips.
This was great but I still haven’t recovered from that poor horse trying to get strokes that never came lol.he even tried to shove the horses head away with his shoulder 😭 priorities all wrong
Does anyone know why some highwaymen, at least in fiction, referred to themselves as "captain"? For example, Captain Jerry Jackson in "The Wicked Lady" and Captain Feeny in "Barry Lyndon".
Mike Loades is simply wonderful. His enthusiasm would make any subject riveting. More please!
Interesting. Another factor that contributes to the success of a highway man or road agent is an unarmed victim.
@Susan James - it’s a tad late for me, but I wish my chemistry teacher had such enthusiasm as Mr Loades, all those many moons ago. I might have actually learned something.
Can I just say that the outstanding variety of presenters on history hit is what makes it such a brilliant channel.
Mike Loades is perfect for this.
Thanks History Hit team 👍🏻
Brings history to life this guy!🇬🇧
It shows & tells us why living in the 21st Century is a lot Safer.
Anything with Mike Loades in it, is worth watching
Definitely
100%
Absolutely
My fav is the one with peasants revolt of 1381. Tony hosts it and has frickin Mike loades and Toby capwell and his brother LARPING the peasants journey in the background the entire time it's like an avengers assemble of history docs
I concur.
Well done Mike! You are absolutely right to highlight the over glamourisation of this type of acquisitive crime.. The sobriquet 'gentlemen of the road' is absurd given the nature of what they did. Well presented as ever! Happy New year everyone. 🌟👍🎉
I've heard that a lot of highwaymen _were_ gentlemen - in the literal sense of minor nobility. Particularly after the Civil War, when those who had backed the wrong side had their lands confiscated and had to find an alternative source of income. But to a noble, actually getting a job was seen as beneath them, so they turned to armed robbery as a more "respectable" alternative.
Id never seen Loades before his amazing chat with Dan about Agincourt and archery etc and hes now one of my favourite history presenters. His passion is infectious
Did you see the one where he trained a small phalanx of pikemen, then tested their resolve by charging at them?
Granted, he was alone, on foot, and unarmed; but a screaming Mike Loades at full speed is still nothing to sniff at.
I watched that too.
@@eldorados_lost_searcherkindly send me the link to that one. Thanks in anticipation.
Mike is a treasure
Those horses are truly beautiful, magnificent animals. Good heavens they look healthy and well taken care of. You love to see it.
I love the way the horse swings his heard around into Mike when he stops brushing him.
"I didn't say you could stop brushing me! Get back to work!"
Mike Loades is always enjoyable to watch
Love Mike Loades he just loves what he does and you can tell !!! fantastic !!!!
Captain Feeney from Barry lyndon.
Adam Ant was my favourite highwayman!
Ah-HA! I knew I'd find an Adam Ant fan in the comments! 👍🏻😀 Love it!
Yes! I love Mike Loades.
Loved this whole documentary - it was great and held me rapt throughout the whole show.
The most enthusiastic man on the planet. Love Mike's videos!
I love anything with Mike and Ray in, thanks.
Thanks.
I love this guy!
Mike Loades is one of my all time favourites!
This is fascinating. More Mike Loades please.
How have I never seen this presenter?His enthusiasm and narration are so engaging.
I thought Tony Robinson was the only one to impart knowledge with so much entertainment value!
That's my day sorted - I'm going in a binge..not feeling well anyway so now I have the perfect distraction.
He's in a lot of documentaries, although I can't actually think of any. He likely has an IMDB with the info though. He was definitely a historian helped on that historical tv game show where two teams fought each other as controllers of fighting armies, also can't remem.The name
@@h____hchump8941 I believe that the game show was called Time Commanders, and they used the software and gameplay now widely available for a while as the computer strategy game, Rome Total War.
@@h____hchump8941 Thanks, I'll look out for him.
Runescape flashbacks intensify.
Thank you really good.
Desperate times calls for desperate measures. Their MASTERS. Life was terrible for anyone not wealthy.
I love this video because all l could think about while watching was that old song Stand and Deliver by Adam and the Ants. A song about a dandy highwayman with a great video.
Absolutely fantastic probably the best guy to present a historical documentary he certainly knows his stuff excellent as always 👍
What about Dennis Moore ? 😅
I happen to know this is the Lupin Express…
@@bob_the_bomb4508 "Blimey, this redistribution of wealth is more complicated than I thought."
But are they dandy highwaymen?
Mike channeling his inner Adam Ant :)
Very interesting!
What a wonderfully detailed and comprehensive documentary ❤ i as many ladies live the idea & fantasy of "The Highwayman" but as the gentleman correctly states making a lady dance af gunpoint is an act of sadism& terror xx
Got to love Mike Loades.
Fascinating. Thanks!
In Ireland there is a song called whiskey in the jar about a ropairí who robs a captain.
Mike Loades is a gem 💎
Fascinating!
Interesting.
Law & Order of the Century.
Mike is great
Stand and deliver!
Such a great video. Entertaining and full of everything I needed for the story I'm currently researching :D
Those dueling pistols are particularly beautiful, for flintlocks.
One particularly famous Highwayman would go on to become a Dam Builder, and then a Sailor, and then a Starship Pilot!
I was a highwayman
Along the coach roads i did ride
With sword and pistol by my side
Many a young maid lost her baubles to my trade, many a soldier shed his lifeblood on my blade
The bastards hung me in the spring of '25, but i am still alive.
You stole, harmed, killed. You deserved jail, but you had it coming too.
Good short poem, though.
@@Briselance
It's the first verse of 'The highwayman', a song by a group called The Highwaymen, Willie Nelson, Kris Kristofferson, Waylon Jennings and Johnny Cash.
The whole time I keep watching this I get the Metallica song whiskey in a jar stuck in my head.
@@txgunguy2766 But that's a good song too I like Willie Nelson far more than I do Metallica. I actually got to meet him once back in 1976
Mike Loades! Fantastic chap. Look forward to watching this later, when I've got some peace and quite and when the kids are asleep lol.
Wow, that horse LOVES you! 8:15
Love your work 👍
Bring the Tricorn back!
As I was going over
the Cork and Kerry mountains...
Good song
I just see Adam Ant....
... whilst I see Dennis Moore.
They weren't robbing the poor, I'm team highwayman.
They were still thieves.
@@krashd
So we’re the rich, morally!
I suspect that there was a very simple reason that highwaymen were popular: The class nature of British society. The main targets of highwaymen would naturally be the upper middle class and richer (due to risk vs reward considerations) and these people were really nasty to the common and lower classes. So, commoners could easily consider a highway robbery a just punishment for the evil of the rich.
That was really interesting
I'm curious about their stolen property that wasn't recovered by the law of the day. Where is it?
Mike is awesome as usual 😮
more than just a historian, Mr Loades knows his stuff, he knows the weapons and knows how to use them, he can ride and knows horses, and he looks the part and is absorbed in it, lives it, becomes part of the history himself it is infectious.......... in a way I am jealous........ long live Mr Mike Loades......... and many thanks for all I have learned from watching you..... I am 60, never too old to learn, and you can teach an old dog new tricks........ hahahaha....... good luck mate
Mike was really interesting and bought the subject alive. He actually held a stage coach up using his pistol and horse and was caught by the camera just before a serious robbery took place. He was able to produce a book which gave one step-by-step instructions on how to be a good highwayman. An interesting demonstration showed how a pistol ball could lace the inside of the body with dirty pieces of clothing (in addition to the shot becoming more jagged on impact), leaving the victim mortally wounded, who would subsequently die from sepsis. You also need a good quality , stabled horse which could run fast and had stamina, to escape yeomanry/redcoats. A stabled horse was in much better condition than one which had just been tethered outside.
Brilliant
Mike is brilliant
This video deserves more information about lupins.
Masks with those outfits are one of the absolute coolest looks
I like that Mike pointed out although people might have found the story of the lady being forced to dance amusing, it was, in fact, a horrible thing to do.
Nowadays they operate on motorway service stations. The prices are astronomical
Tragic Periods of Highwaymen!!
Excellent video. However, Hemel Hempstead is also a very old town with a medieval church and old buildings, a coaching inn etc.
Nice to have the cameo by Vicki Pipe at the start
Do you watch her fella's stuff too?
@@veedubbya Rather tragically, it's her ex-fella's stuff. While the relationship seemed so great in 'All the Stations', it came off the rails (so to speak) afterwards and they separated not long after getting married. Awfully sad.
In the movie master and commander you see them searching the wound and laying the material over the shirt to make sure they found it all….
Have you seen 'Trafalgar Battle Surgeon'?
@@faeembrugh no I’ll have to find it.
Dear Sir,
What a Great Factual Doco
Thank You.
Absolutely compelling-both the subject matter, and the presentation by Mr Loades. Superb.
A Tragedy Period!
Policeless times!
We still have highwaymen here in several states in the US. They are known as Highway Patrol, State Police, Police, or Sheriff's Deputies and they do their dirty work under an absurd legal doctrine called Civil Asset Forfeiture. They stop motorists for any of several real or imagined reasons, check if they are carrying large sums of cash and, if so, seize it under the theory that it MIGHT be used for illegal purposes. Even if no charges are ever filed the victim has to sue to get the money back, often with little success. Very often the amounts taken make the expenses of hiring an attorney more than what they may (or may not) recover.
Way to be a typical American and try to make an episode about English history about YOU…No wonder we have such notorious reputation in Europe and the UK. 🤨 I guarantee you that everyone is sick to death of our politics when they're just trying to enjoy some content about their own country.
Scotland here
That sounds completely bogus. Actually, it sounds like you're just bitter because you got nicked by the cops and got in trouble. If you got pulled over and were charged with a traffic offense serious enough to require you retaining legal counsel instead of just using a public defender or paying a fine, that sounds like a you problem, mate.
Also nobody cares.
@@lauriejones4507 Who licked the red off your candy?
In Ireland there is a song called whiskey in the jar about a ropairí who robs a captain.
@@lauriejones4507 Sadly Laurie, he was telling the truth. Also what on Earth did he say that was political?
In Australia, Highway men were known as "Bushrangers" and is said to not be exclusive to men.
The most famous Bushranger gang was "the Kelly Gang" lead by Ned Kelly who had the highest bounty for a Bushranger in Australian history.
"Stand and deliver", a cry oft heard in NHS hospitals.
Mike Loades! Fantastic chap, look forward to watching this later when the kids are in bed.
An armed public, that is an excellent response to criminals.
In a world devoid of mental illness I would agree with you, but if you arm the public of a nation today it'll just turn into a murder-infested cesspool like most third-world countries and the US.
I'm a bit sad you didn't mention the lady highwaymen or the wicked lady. Yes I learned about her about two years ago.
Well said we need to know the full story luv 😃
@@mickharrison9004 Katherine Ferrers interesting story..
It's interesting how good disguising yourself could be for a highwayman. One highwayman stopped a man on horseback only to have the man exclaim that he was a fellow highwayman and therefore should not be robbed. Letting him go the highman retired to a nearby inn only to find the man he had stopped earlier telling everyone how he had fooled the highwayman. As the highwayman was no longer in disguise the man did not recognise him. The highwayman slipped out at dawn and waylaid the man a second time but this time he was wearing a different disguise. When the man again claimed to be a fellow highwayman he was told he would not get away with that a second time and was robbed.
I heard on a talk radio show warning " adventurous tourists" to beware of " highwaymen" on Mexican roads.God bless your work 😇
Brilliant, his horse was so beautiful
Excellent video. Before I ever heard any of this, I thought highway robbery was when I paid $1 per gallon more for petrol I-95 than in town. 😃
You from US? I live by I-95 too. It goes from florida all the way past new york where I live.
@@Moishe555 LOL Yes, I'm in Connecticut, just off I-95. 20 years after living in Boston for 20 years, also just off I-95. The great thing about that was that on hot days and horrible traffic from Billerica to Boston, I got off and went swimming in Walden Pond, a place I only knew about from Highh School literature class.
These people were dangerous and not to be romanticized. My cousin and I don't follow these types of people or dictator's or political families etc. They always leave out the bad part's in order to sell the gossip papers.
The thing is, some of them primarily targeted the upper echelons of society in a society where most people were very poor - so it’s no wonder they were often idolised by the poor!
Very interesting documentary to watch. I dress up as a Highwayman at pirate festivals in the UK, its fun to do that stand out differently amongst the crowds of pirates.
One more thing I'd add on the matter of muzzleloaders - they used lead balls. Modern ammo is often times jacketed for better penetration, while lead is soft and when it hits anything it deforms and flattens on impact, delivering much more force than if it were to go right through. Somewhat out of proportion and a bit absurd, but it's the difference between getting hit by a really fast going needle and getting hit by a car.
I have to admit when I hear the line "stand and deliver" in a robbery I think of the Irish folk song Whiskey in the Jar
'the devil take your stereo'
AND your record collection
@@versebuchanan512 The way you look and qualify :)
I happen to know this is the Lupin Express.
An obscure reference but somebody might get it.
@@raypurchase801 Dennis Moor etc etc..
highwaymen on horses evolved into street mugging with moped.
So the cop stole Snooks' pistols..... 😊
"Right. Hand over all your lupins. I have two pistols here. Admittedly, one of them isn't loaded any more, but the other one is. I'm very good shot. I practise every day. Well, not absolutely every day . . . "
Dennis Moore
What was the line in Tom Jones that was an answer to stand and deliver? "Deliver what. I'm no traveling midwife." A great line delivered by Edith Evans.
I call parking ticket machines: "electro-mechanical Dick Turpins". Not as much style, not as much fun, but not as dangerous.
Saw the title and all I could think was "Your Lupins or your life!". Oh Dennis Moore, still making me giggle.
Was looking to see if anyone mentioned Dennis Moore and his attempts at redistributing wealth in Georgian England. 😄
Mike Loades is a real dude
I’m the dandy highwayman who you’re too scared to mention …
wow, didn't know such pistols had only such a small recoil.... 🤔😮 14:22 the problem with such a wound: if the bullet is stuck and cannot be removed, you will die by a lead poisoning. that was the reason for many amputated body parts in the wars of that centuries.
I never travel with lupins!
Damn, you beat me to the Lupin joke
I happen to know this is the Lupin Express.
We should have more videos like this unlike the usual repeated stories of Jessie James and Billy the kid This is the first documentary of highwaymen I've seen .Well done How about something on dulists and swordmen
Highwaymen would be a great for a series similar to "Pirates of the Carribean." Given that highwaymen were glamourized like pirates, you could have all kinds of interesting characters and plots.
Well, there’s already the old TV series with Dick Turpin
999.
Which Service do you require?
Police Force Please.
I found out a little while ago that my great great great great great great great grandfather was Dick Turpin. I was wondering about a career move, thanks for all the tips.
2006 Blackbeard TV Movie.
Bluecoat the Highwayman.
I blame Adam Ant ! 😂😅😍
Stand and deliver? Reminded me of the fact that some take delight in the carriages a rolling
This was great but I still haven’t recovered from that poor horse trying to get strokes that never came lol.he even tried to shove the horses head away with his shoulder 😭 priorities all wrong
Does anyone know why some highwaymen, at least in fiction, referred to themselves as "captain"? For example, Captain Jerry Jackson in "The Wicked Lady" and Captain Feeny in "Barry Lyndon".
How come you didn't mention Brennan on the moor? I enjoyed your however. Butch Cassidy also portrayed that gentleman air
In Australia they were called Bush Rangers