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Category: Chartism

19th Century…

The Man in the Moon

9 Jul 2020
By Stephen Basdeo I once heard it said (in a book somewhere, tho’ I’ve never the time nor the inclination to look up the reference), that if you’re a politician…
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 Vision” by Robin Hood (1841)

16 Jul 2019
Everyone of course loves to investigate appearances of the name of Robin Hood in medieval court records. One of these days, it might finally be proven who the “real” Robin…
19th Century…

Thomas Cooper’s “Prison Rhyme” (1845)

5 May 20196 May 2019
By Stephen Basdeo I recently came into possession of a book written by Thomas Cooper (1805-92), a famous Chartist activist, which he gave to his friend, the newspaper proprietor and…
19th Century…

The Chartist Robin Hood: The Poems of W. J. Linton (1812–97)

7 Apr 20197 Apr 2019
By Stephen Basdeo During the 1830s, in spite of the passage of the ‘great’ Reform Act (1832), most working men could not vote, while women did not enter the equation…
19th Century…

Life of a Little-Known Chartist

8 Dec 2018
While the main focus of this website is crime, since the publication of my book, The Life and Legend of Rebel Leader: Wat Tyler (2018), I have been increasingly interested…

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