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Benjamin Myers’ 2017 novel “The Gallows Pole” told the “true-life tale of the 18th century gang of coin clippers led by ‘King’ David Hartley, whose illegal work and attendant violence came to dominate Cragg Vale in West Yorkshire”, said Lucy Mangan in The Guardian. Now, it’s been turned into a…

Directed by This Is England creator Shane Meadows, the biopic tells the tale of the deadly forgery gang who nearly sank the economy of 18th Century Britain

Shane Meadows’s latest TV venture could have been cracking – but it’s just plain bewildering

The director of This is England’s take on a novel about an 18th-century counterfeiting gang is funny, moving, shocking and totally compelling. He has effortlessly reinvented a whole genre

A new Shane Meadows drama called The Gallows Pole showcases the lives of David Hartley and the Yorkshire Coiners, a brutal but cunning gang who made and shared forged currency in the 1700s

New period drama The Gallows Pole is airing on the BBC

The Gallows Pole true story: There's a shocking truth behind the BBC historical drama, described as “The biggest fraud in British history.”