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19th Century…

Anon. ‘Robin Hood’ (1828)

7 Jul 2019
The following poem, written anonymously and titled simply as 'Robin Hood', appeared in The Oriental Observer and Literary Chronicle in 1828. The newspaper, printed in Calcutta during the rule of…
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Robin Hood the Angry Letter Writer

9 Jun 2019
By Stephen Basdeo Many people have adopted the name of Robin Hood over the years. The most obvious ones which spring to mind are the men who appear in medieval…
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The Politics of Victorian England’s “Vicious Republican”: G. W. M. Reynolds (1814–79)

13 Feb 2019
By Stephen Basdeo It’s quite possible that you’ve never heard of George William MacArthur Reynolds (1814–79). His prolific writing career has been overshadowed somewhat by his contemporaries such as Charles…
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Sedition

23 Nov 201823 Nov 2018
By Stephen Basdeo Since the Victorian era, even though they lack a formal written constitution, the English people have always enjoyed a high degree of freedom of speech and political…
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Victor Hugo’s “The Last Day of a Condemned Man” (1829)

7 Jul 2017
Last week Google celebrated the life of Victor Hugo (1802-85) with some quirky illustrations on its masthead, so I thought I would do the same by writing a post on…
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Unruly Apprentices

9 Apr 20179 Apr 2017
During the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, many criminals recorded in works such as Alexander Smith’s History of the Highwaymen (1714), and Charles Johnson’s History of the Highwaymen (1734), as…

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