19th Century… “Saxon Grit” 23 Apr 2020 St George’s Day seems as fitting time as ever to publish a “new” Robin Hood poem I found titled “Saxon Grit” in the archives of a long-defunct Christian socialist magazine…
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…
19th Century… An English Republican’s View of Crime and its Causes 19 May 201819 May 2018 By Stephen Basdeo George William MacArthur Reynolds (1814-79) was one of the Victorian era’ most prolific novelists. Inspired by Eugene Sue’s Mysteries of Paris (1843), Reynolds’s famous The Mysteries of…
19th Century… The Underclass of 19th-Century New York City: The Work of Jacob A. Riis (1849-1914) 2 May 20182 May 2018 Stephen Basdeo examines the work of nineteenth-century American social reformer, Jacob A. Riis (1849-1914). Amongst British nineteenth-century scholars, Henry Mayhew is perhaps the best known of all social investigators, along…
