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Category: 16th Century

1381…

“The Life and Death of Jacke Straw” (1593)

17 May 202017 May 2020
By Stephen Basdeo The following is an excerpt from my book: The Life and Legend of a Rebel Leader: Wat Tyler (2018). It is available to buy from the publisher…
16th Century…

Gamaliel Ratsey (d.1605): The Man whose Life Kick-started the “True Crime” Genre

18 Mar 2020
By Stephen Basdeo Gamaliel Ratsey was born in Market Deeping, Lincolnshire, during the late sixteenth century.[1] Little is known of Ratsey’s early life; his father, Richard, and his wife had…
14th Century…

Adam Bell, Clim of the Clough and William of Cloudeslie

20 Feb 2020
By Stephen Basdeo Stories of Robin Hood have been popular since at least the late fourteenth century, as we know from William Langland’s Vision of Piers Plowman (c.1377). However, around…
1381…

The History of Thomas Walsingham’s Historia Anglicana traced through Reappearances of Jack Straw’s Last Dying Speech

5 Jul 2019
A paper delivered at the International Medieval Congress, University of Leeds, 1–5 July 2019 by Stephen Basdeo The so-called Peasants’ Revolt of 1381 was widely reported in various chronicles. The…
14th Century…

The Flemish Revolt: Pierce Egan’s “Quintin Matsys” (1838)

28 Dec 2018
By Stephen Basdeo Pierce Egan the Younger (1814–80) is one of my most favourite Victorian authors. The son of the more famous Regency journalist and writer, Pierce Egan (1772–1849), he…
1381…

The Last Dying Speech and Confession of Jack Straw

23 Sep 201723 Sep 2017
In 1381, one of the most important events in English medieval history occurred: the Peasants’ Revolt. Under the leadership of a former soldier, Wat Tyler (d. 1381), a radical priest,…

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