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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…
17th century…

John Dryden’s “A Ballad of Bold Robin Hood, Shewing his Birth, Breeding, and Valour”

20 Dec 2015
But see where artful Dryden next appears, Grown old in rhyme, but charming ev’n in years, Great Dryden next, whose tuneful muse affords The sweetest numbers, and the fittest words.…
18th century…

Dick Turpin (1705-1739)

1 Nov 20151 Nov 2015
Dick Turpin (1705-1739) is perhaps the most famous highwayman in English history after Robin Hood (fl. 12th-13th centuries). He is remembered today as a heavily romanticised noble, gallant figure, having…
16th Century…

Female Highwaymen

18 Oct 201518 Oct 2015
Highway robbery is predominantly thought of as a male-gendered crime, and it is true that the vast majority of those found in the dock at the Old Bailey in eighteenth-century…

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