18th century… “Confusion, horror, and bloodshed”: Joseph Ritson’s Eye-Witness Account of the Gordon Riots in 1780 12 Jan 201912 Jan 2019 By Stephen Basdeo Unless you have been living under a rock, you will have noticed that across the English Channel in France, quite a few people are very, very annoyed…
1370… Visions of “Piers Plowman” in the 18th Century 11 Dec 201713 Dec 2017 The best thing about having a Robin Hood theme for this blog is that it allows me to legitimately write about both crime and medievalism (medievalism, as opposed to medieval…
1381… ‘Robin Hood Should Bring Us John Ball’: The Outlaw in William Morris’ “A Dream of John Ball” (1886) 4 Dec 2016 I am currently working on two projects: my PhD thesis examining post-medieval representations of Robin Hood, and my forthcoming book examining the post-medieval cultural history of Wat Tyler, the leader…
11th Century… Radical Robin Hood: “Little John and Will Scarlet” (1865) 14 Oct 2016 Introduction With the exception of Pierce Egan the Younger’s Robin Hood and Little John, or, The Merry Men of Sherwood Forest (1838-40), Robin Hood penny dreadfuls have generated very little…
18th century… The Critical Reception of Mrs. Brown of Falkland’s Robin Hood Ballads 16 Sep 201616 Sep 2016 Paper Presented to the Women's History Network Conference, Leeds Trinity University, 16-17 September 2016. Abstract: The earliest ballads of Robin Hood such as A Gest of Robyn Hode (c.1450) and…
19th Century… The Chartist Robin Hood: Thomas Miller’s “Royston Gower, or, The Days of King John” (1838) 4 Aug 20164 Aug 2016 The early nineteenth century witnessed two phenomenally successful Robin Hood novels: Walter Scott’s Ivanhoe (1819) and Thomas Love Peacock’s Maid Marian (1822). After those two novels, authors took a break…
