Travis Elborough

If you’re a king or a queen, there’s nothing quite like thinking up the most hideous form of execution for a traitor. What you want is a good plot against one’s royal self, followed by instruments of extreme torture, topped off by a beheading or possibly some hanging, drawing, and...

Take yourself back to the days when Hyde Park was humming with highwaymen and when a chap on a horse with a mask could earn a dishonest living robbing from the rich.