Dick Turpin: History's Most Notorious Highwayman
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All I think of is that perfect song from horrible histories
Yes
god those songs where good
Quality comment 😂💯
thats not john palmers hand, thats DICK TURPINS he cried 🙄
That song was fantastic!
That Horrible Histories Dick Turpin song is a bloody classic!
This biographic extends on the song
That song showed up in my recommended videos after looking for the folk song! It's so perfect! I've always been a history nerd, so I would have watched the heck out of that show if it had been available in my area (I'm from the American south).
@@Luv2sing836 I've seen some US-wrote books called history smashers(?) that look like they're very much in the vein of the HH books, so I guess it's only a matter of time.
I remembered reading him in the books
@@Luv2sing836 you gotta find it! not only is it funny, there have only been like 7 errors of fact found in the whole series. even down to almost perfect period(s) costuming.
"Turpin shot a chicken on the streets in broad daylight," the biggest no no in Skyrim ran through my head instantly
Painful flashbacks.
Reminds me of John Wesley Hardin, who shot and killed a man for snoring. (I'm still amazed that Hardin became a _lawyer_ after he got out of prison!)
Instant death penalty lol love the game
Maybe he was drunk.
I had the exact same thought: "Don't kill the chickens" 😂
“It’s no fun hanging with highway men when you’re hanging from a rope”
Did anyone else learn about him from ‘Horrible Histories’ 😂?
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Yes. :)
Very pog Horrible Histories
Look up "Stand and Deliver" Adam and The Ants. That's where they got it from
@@jamieculp8291 I first heard of Dick Turpin as a child after visiting York dungeon museum, I've also been to his grave in York, he was a brutal man, but i suppose it was a brutal time.
Everyone thinks they know the story of Dick Turpins highway glory
Was no saint. You think life is one big antic, my profession is romantic, hate to be pedantic but it ain't
As a butcher down in Essex I was handy with a knife, had a sideline as a poacher, led a less than honest life
The notorious gang of Gregory liked my style & dedication
They signed me up & gave me a real robber’s education
We rampaged through the Essex farms,
we stole and robbed and fought but when the law came for us I escaped and they got caught.
I became a highwayman
, was daylight robbery (Huh!)
I was no prince charming
, nothing dandy about me (Huh!)
Came here after having watched Good Omens. Great show and book btw. Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett never disappoint.
My father reported to me once that his father told him that, by far, Oklahoma had the lowest number of highwaymen, but the most burdened trees.
I married into the family, but there are a couple family members that definitely have that Turpin personality!
the butchers wife
I am who I am!
😂👏💍
I had never heard of Dick Turpin before I married into the family. I found a composite drawing of what he looked like and I screamed and dropped my phone. It was like looking at my husband or father- in -law!
@@kelliturpin8530 Woah! That's a great story😂 how cool!
I live in Heckington, and was brought up on the daring tales of Dick Turpin and how he frequented the Nags Head in the village. He's rarely mentioned now and has faded into local history
Interestingly, the fabled journey of Turpin riding Black Bess to York in a single day was actually carried out by another highwayman called John Nevison some years earlier
I’m a vicious highway man of daylight robbery, I was no Prince Charming nothing dandy about me.
@@derbyslad nope 👎 I’m a civilian of the working class. Nothing dandy about me.
@@derbyslad 😜 I get it now. But It’s incredibly hard to offend me. I was quoting the horrible history song about Dick Turpin’Dick Turpins highway glory’ you can watch it on you tube 😉
I LOVE horrible histories omg I still watch it nowadays lol and I'm 24
Simon has a way of speaking that makes you feel like you're sitting across the desk from him, and only you exist. 🥰
He has a way of speaking that makes him sounds like stuck-up, elitist, snob
@@truth5705 who hurt you
@@truth5705 You mean an English accent ?
If your grammar is an indicator of your personality or behavioral traits, you should refrain from imparting judgement on anyone. Least of all a popular and successful CZcams entertainer.
@@archstanton6102 there's hundreds of accents in England and even more in Britain at large. Nothing to do with that he has a specifically posh accent
You should do
David Bowie: The Thin White Duke!
It would be a great next from your Freddy Mercury bio
I'd really like to see a Biographics video about Genrikh Yagoda or Lazar Kaganovich, Idel Jakobson or Salomon Morel or Józef Różański or Anatol Fejgin or Stefan Michnik.
I wonder why he hasn't, maybe he's afraid to draw attention to their ethnic backgrounds and the horrible crimes they commited.
Some scholars estimate Yagoda could have killed as much as 20 million people.
Biographics should do a whole series pertaining to the infamous criminals of the 1600-1800s British isles. There are quite a few them and are as interesting as they are terrifying. This includes the semi legendary ones and others whose existence is disputed.
Could you do a video on Alexander II of Russia? When most westerners look at Russian Tsars they mostly find the obvious ones: Ivan the Terrible, Peter the Great, Cathrine the Great and Nicholas II, most (if not all) of which you have videos on, however Alexander II was incredibly important, perhaps being best known for liberating the serfs, earning the title, Tsar Liberator
Good point.
Simon, Love the channel and the information and History...
2:05 - Chapter 1 - I was a highwayman
4:50 - Chapter 2 - Along the coach roads i did ride
7:55 - Chapter 3 - With sword and pistol by my side
11:10 - Chapter 4 - The bastards hung me in the spring of 25
15:00 - Chapter 5 - But i'am still alive
@@sydnamon5986 its a song by the Highwaymen called "Highwayman". It was a country band with Johnny Cash, Willie Nelson, Waylon Jennings, and Kris Kristofferson.
Damn bro ! He really went there didn't he hahah
I was a sailor
I was born upon the tide
And with the sea I did abide
I sailed a schooner round the Horn to Mexico
I went aloft and furled the mainsail in a blow
And when the yards broke off they said that I got killed
But I am living still
@@TheBuckteeth100
I was a damn builder
across the river deep wide
Where steel and water did collide
A place called boulder on the wild Colorado
I skipped and feel into the wet concrete below
They buried me in great tomb that knows no sound
But I'm still around
@@madisonyarletts6174 that is a dam builder as in Hoover Dam
Simon if you say “rockwood” instead of “rookwood” one more time I might have a stroke 😂
I really liked the old tv series starring Richard O'Sullivan when I was young. I even had a jigsaw puzzle from the series as a Christmas present.
Its on CZcams now!
@@paulofengland1331 Cool
00.13 "The value of these horses was 6 pounds and 20 shillings."
Seven pounds in other words. :P
If you stole more than 5 pounds then it was a hanging offence
Horrible Histories made a song about him:
"Its no fun hanging with the highwaymen when you hanging from a rope."
Link?
@@poporopo913search horrible histories dick Turpin song
Great, informative video!
The Willie Nelson quotes are fun. Cool reference
The Highwaymen was more then just Willie Nelson... but still love it hah
That's a term for people that live on the road stealing from anyone they can and as you heard, murdering when they need to. It's a term as old as roads I suppose. Lol wow people really think willie Nelson made that up eh? Read a damn book folks...
If you happen to be into Willie Nelson enough to recognize them - otherwise, they're nonsensical.
@@TruckingBryce Well he did the Highwayman in the song, and all the title cards were quotes from his part of the song.
@@kloco1217 What are you on about? The title cards were quotes that Willie sang called Highwayman by the Highwaymen, (a group he was a part of)
It’s mad to think that all those modern day raiders of crops were 300+ years behind Turpin and his boys
Thank you biographics crew for getting the Highwaymen’s song stuck in my head
Excellent piece.
Rooster outside of tavern: "Dick Turpin! I'm calling you out!"
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 🙌DICK TURPIN....IM YOUR HUCKLEBERRY..... I PLAY FOR BLOODDDDD
Love these videos Simon! Have you guys considered doing a piece on El Cid?
Chuck Heston on a horse.
Finally an interesting video. 🧐 Well done.
Great video!
You should do Justinian,Belisarius and Constantine the great
This is the best content in a while.
I love the the song you used for the transition slides. 😊 (There's a really good Finnish version by Raskasta Iskelmää that I love just as much.)
What is the song called?
Love the reference to the iconic song, Highwayman!
Great video! I've never heard the name Dick Turpin until today. As usual, I am here to kindly request a Biographic on Ip Man, the martial arts mentor to the late, great Bruce Lee! A bunch of over the top action movies just can't do his life justice like Biographics can! Please and thank you in advance! -A Loyal Subscriber
Good video 👍
Rolled prophylactics are fun.
I call mine a Richard Turban.
What a surprise they were *Essex* boys!
Still there but swapped *Black Bess* for blacked out *Range Rovers!*
The only reason I know who Dick Turpin was is because of Good Omens by Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett 💀
Been waiting for this
All us Essex kids go to visit Hempstead for the Turpin Tour in primary school. It's really something. Always great fun, even when you're older. Makes a great Halloween activity.
Since the chapters of this video were titled with Willie Nelson's lines from The Highwaymen's "Highwayman" can we expect an episode of Biographics on Willie? He's led a very interesting life indeed and at 87 he's still living it. That said, the other members are also fascinating characters in their own right; in fact, I suggested Johnny Cash a few years back, plus Waylon Jennings had been one of Buddy Holly's backing musicians around the time of the fatal plane flight and worst-planned concert tour ever before becoming an icon himself, and I'm spewing that I couldn't have seen Kris Kristofferson when he came to my current hometown because like Willie he's a living legend.
Fascinating🖖
Nobody:
Absolutely no one:
Runescape players: Stand and deliver!
Runescape players 🤝 Adam and the Ants fans
@@aaronhurst4379 YES!!! A MAN OF CULTURE!!!
I just saw this in my subscription feed and burst out laughing at the name
SAME!
Ikr?!
I love when you do videos like this about lesser known, folk type people rather than presidents or big named people
Idea for a BIOGRPAHICS EPISODE of ; willem van oranje (William of Orange) is known as the founding father and hero of The Netherlands. he made his fame when he led the Dutch uprising against the rule of the Spanish Habsburgthe (The Spanish where in the Netherlands) ,
The uprise led to the 80-year war (1568-1648) between the Dutch states and Spain
There is a English page on wikipedia "William the Silent" that's his nickname.
I'd really like to see a Biographics video about Genrikh Yagoda or Lazar Kaganovich, Idel Jakobson or Salomon Morel or Józef Różański or Anatol Fejgin or Stefan Michnik.
I wonder why he hasn't, maybe he's afraid to draw attention to their ethnic backgrounds and the horrible crimes they commited.
Some scholars estimate Yagoda could have killed as much as 20 million people.
Pretty sure he’s already done that video man
I love your videos
Could you please do a video on Lord Louis Mountbatten? Love the channel!
It's interesting how the writings from that time capitalize all the nouns, like in modern German.
Old English has a lot more in common with modern German
The reason horse theft was a hanging offense wasn't because the people in the past were obsessed with the right to property.
It was actually because stealing a horse meant stranding someone in the wilderness with no supplies or transportation out, basically attempted murder. If you'd care to look it up in most legal systems "attempted" crimes are usually treated the same as successful ones because the defendant fully intended to complete what they started, and if let off easy are that much more encouraged to try again.
When I saw Dock Turpin's name on this video, instantly thought of the Horrible Histories' song
Love this channel.. but made me giggle when discussing Loughton. Mentioned it twice. Luffton and Lawton.. hehehe.
When traveling down the road never take the middle fork. It may be a Turpin tine.
🙄
😂😂I love this but you are super fired.
Isn't the middle path just straight on
4:45 Thought I was watching That Chapter for a moment there.
I love that chapter
Yeah the intro music is also one Mike uses.
Was that the first, second, or _tird_ time you thought so?
@@rafetizer I'm just impressed that you're the tird reply. You and two other people, making tree in total.
Poor Mike.
Same and the first song 😂😂
Finally found Epping Forest, thanks for the song Peter
He most definitely wasn’t The Dandy Highway man… we’ve too scared to mention...!
He spends his cash on looking flash and grabbing your attention...
I spend my cash on looking flash! Stand and Deliver!
Ooohhi your money or your life..huh
@@ThatElfTorunn The devil take your stereo and your record collection, the way you look you'll qualify for next year's old age pension
The Devil take your stereo and your record collection!
I like the nod to the Highwaymen band. Nice touch
Have spent the last few days watching these one after the other. Grest work, Simon. I feel so much smarter.
You must get millions of suggestions, so here are mine. First, Ibn Shaprut, the Jewish vizier who persuaded a Christian queen to bow before the Sultan of Grenada. And related, Sancho the Fat.
Cheers and thank you, Simon!
Never heard of this guy before. I suppose I'm not cultured enough. I'm glad I have Simon to tell me all about him.
Awesome story
I did not know that "Rookwood" is prounounced "Rockwood". I learn so many things from this channel.
I just constantly expect Simon to shout cocaine in these videos now hahah
He's Cokestapher Columbus and he's about to land on Crack Rock
In had never heard of Dick Turpin until I watched Good Omens.
Remember watching the tv-show as kids in the 80s with my brother :)
Please do more british outlaws. I would be fascinating
That man was one “D” away from having history’s greatest name as well.
He also had an uncanny resemblance to Richard O'Sullivan 😂
Hi Simon! Can you do a biographic of Napoleon Hill? Reading his books and not much is said about him.
I like how you used the Johnny Cash song versus in the video
For me, Dick Turpin will always have the face of Richard O'Sullivan, and the awesome themesong from the old TV series.
Yeah it was a good show
You really have a video on everything
Simon! huge fan. love and subbed to all 58 of your channels. Please complete a bio of Carl Jung. If you get time, bonus points if you can fo my man Hermann Hesse.
Has there been a Biographics video on Plunkett and Maclaine? Another interesting highwayman story.
Nothing beats a good highwayman biography!
I live in a small town called long sutton in Lincolnshire where Dick Turpin's parents had a butchers shop. There are a few streets in long sutton named in relating to Dick Turpin and also a pub called Palmer's ale house
where I grew up (Plumstead, London SE) nearby in Abbey Wood there were caves traditionally called 'Dick Turpins Caves" I've often wondered about the truth of their name.
Any plans about making a video of Deng Xiaoping in the near future? I would like to hear your take on him.
Idea for a future BIOGRPAHICS episode; Judas Maccabeus was a Jewish priest (kohen) and a son of the priest Mattathias. He led the Maccabean Revolt against the Seleucid Empire (the Greeks) (167-160 BCE).
The Jewish holiday of Hanukkah ("Dedication") commemorates the restoration of Jewish worship at the Second Temple in Jerusalem in 164 BCE, after Judah Maccabeus removed all of the statues depicting Greek gods and goddesses and purified it !
Not a comment about this video, but I just saw your excellent video on Louis Pasteur on Biographics. May I suggest one about Ignaz Semmelweis?
I'd really like to see a Biographics video about Genrikh Yagoda or Lazar Kaganovich, Idel Jakobson or Salomon Morel or Józef Różański or Anatol Fejgin or Stefan Michnik.
Like the reverse to that song " I was a highwayman " !
oh god, for anyone who DOESN'T get the good omens joke (whichever it is)... simon's got a vid for that...
That’s nice. Maybe link it?
@@GlenBradley it's one of those "wait for it... for the entire book" jokes. the guy calls his car "dick turpin"... eventually, someone gets around to asking why, and "because everywhere he goes, he holds up traffic"... fails just as hard as pretty much everything else he does...
I remember my grandfather singing a song about him. Never knew who he was until now.
I lived, as a child, very close to the pub where has was arrested, it's called 'the green dragon' in Welton, East Yorkshire
Can you do more serial killers and medical origins? The videos on the origin of HIV and golden state killer were fantastic
Did they literally use the fist verse of “Highwayman “ by The Highwaymen as the section titles . Yes the verse sung by Willie Nelson.
Happy I wasn't the only one lol.
I'll be back again, and again, and again, and again and againnnnn
Was just gonna say the exact same thing!! The song is stuck in my head now!!
Lol. Same!
@@jacobbeaupre3940 that's Johnny tho, great song
The bastards hung me in the spring of 25...but I am still alive.
Hi Simon,
Can a you a biography video of Peter William Sutcliffe the Yorkshire ripper?
Thanks
Can you do a on John Paul Jones:One the most famous naval commanders of the Revolutionary War
I'd really like to see a Biographics video about Genrikh Yagoda or Lazar Kaganovich, Idel Jakobson or Salomon Morel or Józef Różański or Anatol Fejgin or Stefan Michnik.
I wonder why he hasn't, maybe he's afraid to draw attention to their ethnic backgrounds.
Some scholars estimate Yagoda could have killed as much as 20 million people.
John paul jones is a pirate.
@@1999colebug He's a privateer not a pirate
Then he became the bassist of Led Zeppelin..... Lol
@@1999colebug No loyalty does he possess
Keep it up we'll catch the pirate
And sink him along with the rest
Okay thank you. There are a lot of versions of the folk song turpin hero and I always wanted to know what that was about but was too lazy. (Ewan maccoll/Peggy smith; roberts and berrand, in case anyone's interested.)
I like when he flew his starship across the universe divide.
I did not understand that reference.
@@samuelturner6261 from a song called The Highwayman by a group called The Highwaymen
Did he ever find a place to rest his spirit?
@@KnockoutVirus I think so, word is he became a highwayman again.
As an American I first heard of this gentleman on Horrible History!
Could you do a video about Michiel de Ruyter please?
8:58 Oh, so THAT’S where the phrase “flash in the pan” comes from! I always thought it was a cooking metaphor XD
@@sockington1 isn't it obvious that he didn't know that ? didn't you do reading comprehension at school ?
@@sockington1 That seems to be an overly-judgmental sentiment. I did go to school, and did well enough in both History and English. But it was the focus of neither class to teach me the in-depth origin of every idiom in the English language. There were more important things to learn about, like the deepening of the black/white racial divide that resulted from Bacon's Rebellion, or the duality of a man struggling to obtain power while also maintaining his humanity in Macbeth. There are many idioms in the English language that people use every day without fully realizing the origins of the expression, because the implied meaning of the phrase has been disconnected from it's original metaphorical imagery. For example, if I were to say "You're nuts!" you would readily understand that I was calling you crazy. But have you ever stopped to think about why we so readily connect nuts with craziness? Language and communication are complex, often self-contradictory, things, and no one person can be expected to know everything about them. It's rather rude to insult someone's intelligence and/or education simply because they learned something knew about their language that they did not know before.
I would love to see a Marie Laveau Biographics!
I can remember the Dick Turpin T.V. series from the late 70's, don't know how true it was (more a comedy I think) but I enjoyed watching it.
My beautiful York soo much history here
Only reason I know of Dick Turpin because of the 80s TV show
Mainly clicked on this video just to hear the name Dick Turpin said with seriousness. Not disappointed.
My 3rd favourite horrible histories song is the one about Dick Turpin
0:12 'Six pounds and twenty shillings'....so seven pounds then.