15th Century… Review: Alexander Kaufman’s “Jack Cade Rebellion of 1450: A Sourcebook” (2019) 3 Dec 2019 By Stephen Basdeo Alexander L. Kaufman, ed. The Jack Cade Rebellion of 1450: A Sourcebook. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2020. (xii), 257pp. ISBN 978-1-4985-5029-1. £65 (RRP) As the several endorsements…
History… Stephen Basdeo’s “Robin Hood” Radio Segment 12 Oct 2019 As most people know, I've spent a significant amount of time researching and writing about the legend of Robin Hood. Having written a Ph.D. thesis on the legend, it was…
18th century… A Never-Before-Seen Poem by Robert Southey, written in 1791 5 Oct 2019 Edited by Stephen Basdeo and Mark Truesdale The summer of 1791 was an unusually wet one. The young schoolboy, and future Poet Laureate, Robert Southey, therefore had a lot of…
18th century… Joseph Ritson the Radical 5 Sep 20195 Sep 2019 By Stephen Basdeo Joseph Ritson was born in Stockton-on-Tees in 1752 to a poor yeoman family. As a child, he attended the local Unitarian Sunday School where his talents intellectual…
1381… Revolting Women 23 Jul 201923 Jul 2019 By Stephen Basdeo This is a précis of an article written by Sylvia Federico. Please click the link and cite Federico’s well-researched article in any work of your own. Do…
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…
