The history of highway robbery, with its colourful characters and the myths it has spawned, is a surprisingly vast subject, ranging from the reign of Elizabeth I to the great commercial push that came with the railways. Over that whole span, highway robbery can be treated, more or less, as a common occupation and viable career choice. Not all its practitioners were driven to do it through need or destitution, with apprentices often exchanging prospects in craft or trade for a life on the road, and with a fair sprinkling from society's upper echelons drawn to its perils for the sheer love of excitement. Stand and Deliver offers short cameos of over forty highway felons written into the annals of English justice, from the infamous to the very famous, from the likes of Dick Turpin to the likes of Robin Hood, and is a handy primer, entertainingly written, for anyone with even the remotest curiosity at this much mythologised aspect of English life.
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