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Category: Victorian

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…

Yobs from Richmond Arrested for Stealing Football

1 Nov 20181 Nov 2018
By Stephen Basdeo Young lads have always enjoyed playing football, but sometimes their love for it can land them in trouble with the police. This is as true today as…
19th Century…

Pierce Egan’s “Robin Hood Ballads” (1840)

6 Jan 2018
This post is not one of my usual essay style posts, with an introduction and conclusion, etc., but more of a research note after having got hold of a first…
15th Century…

Robert Louis Stevenson’s “The Black Arrow” (1888)

3 Feb 20173 Feb 2017
Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894) is perhaps most famous nowadays for his brilliant novel, The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1886). This post, however, is about a now…
19th Century…

E. L. Blanchard’s “The Mysteries of London” (1849-50)

16 Dec 201616 Dec 2016
My previous post was about Thomas Miller’s continuation of G. W. M. Reynolds’ penny blood The Mysteries of London (Reynolds and Miller’s series were published between 1844 – 1848 and…
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…

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