The Gallows Pole

Set against the backdrop of the coming industrial revolution in 18th-century Yorkshire, the enigmatic David Hartley assembles a gang of weavers and land-workers to embark upon a revolutionary criminal enterprise that will capsize the economy and become the biggest fraud in British history. The group of very naughty men and women start clipping and counterfeiting coins out in the Moors, as a way to keep themselves and their community alive.