including a third of his crew who were Black and formerly enslaved. In return, Bellamy’s pirates were loyal to their captain. They called him “Robin Hood of the Seas” because he stole from ...

Unlike Robin Hood, we know that Dick Turpin ... Folklore tells Turpin as a charismatic, gentlemanly rogue who once rode his horse, Black Bess, from London to York in just one day.

Of all the characters adapted to screen from classic literature and folklore, Robin Hood is perhaps one of the figures that ...