17th century… “The Truth and Nothing But the Truth”: Its first use in popular culture 20 Mar 2020 By Stephen Basdeo ‘The truth and nothing but the truth’—it’s a well-known phrase used in courts of law and most of us have probably heard it in some police procedural…
18th century… The Noble Radical: Charles Lennox, 3rd Duke of Richmond 16 Mar 202017 Mar 2020 By Stephen Basdeo On 22 February 1735 Charles Lennox, the Duke of Richmond, and his wife, Sarah Cadogan, welcomed into the world a son, whom they named Charles, after the…
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…
18th century… The Working Man’s Robin Hood: The Writings of Allan Cunningham (1784–1842) 24 Jan 202024 Jan 2020 By Stephen Basdeo In 1832, the publisher Charles Knight had a bright idea: every Saturday he would publish a new magazine which whose aim was to educate working-class readers about…
19th Century… The Life and Work of Victorian Robin Hood Scholar John Mathew Gutch (1776–1861) 13 Jan 2020 By Stephen Basdeo The modern scholarly study of the Robin Hood legend began with the pioneering work of Joseph Ritson who in 1795 published Robin Hood: A Collection of all…
18th century… Pierce Egan’s Sports Journalism 18 Oct 2019 By Anthony Bynoe Readers of this blog will know that the Victorian novelist and journalist, Pierce Egan the Younger (1814–80), has been featured many times here by Stephen Basdeo. Today,…
