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Tag: 19th Century

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…

Pierce Egan’s Sports Journalism

18 Oct 2019
By Anthony Bynoe Readers of this blog will know that the Victorian novelist and journalist, Pierce Egan the Younger (1814–80), has been featured many times here by Stephen Basdeo. Today,…
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…

Mike Leigh’s “Peterloo” (2018)

18 Nov 2018
Reviewed by Stephen Basdeo As a fan of English radical history (did I mention I once wrote a book about Wat Tyler?), I was really looking forward to Mike Leigh’s…
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…

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…

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