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Category: Radicalism

Chartism…

The Glorious Trio: Robin Hood, Wat Tyler, and Hereward the Wake

8 Apr 2021
I recently had the honour to have a chapter appear in a book edited by Mike Sanders (Twitter @bronterre1) and David Matthews titled Subaltern Medievalisms: Medievalism 'from Below' in Nineteenth-Century…
1817…

How Robert Southey avoided getting “Cancelled”

27 Aug 202027 Aug 2020
By Stephen Basdeo The following is an adaptation of some of the material in my book The Life and Legend of a Rebel Leader: Wat Tyler (2018). You’re an up-and-coming…
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…
1381…

“The Life and Death of Jacke Straw” (1593)

17 May 202017 May 2020
By Stephen Basdeo The following is an excerpt from my book: The Life and Legend of a Rebel Leader: Wat Tyler (2018). It is available to buy from the publisher…
19th Century…

How Victorians Fell in Love with American Rebels

17 Apr 202017 Apr 2020
By Stephen Basdeo The much vaunted ‘special relationship’ between the USA and the UK is a fairly recent invention. For much of the Victorian period, relations between the two nations…
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…

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