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19th Century…

M.P. Shiel’s “The Purple Cloud” (1901)

9 Apr 2021
By Stephen Basdeo The book was a legend … out of space, out of time … he had the character of a poet and a prophet — a prophet, I…
19th Century…

Post-Apocalyptic Bandits: Mary Shelley’s “The Last Man” (1826)

7 Aug 20171 Sep 2017
I am the native of a sea-surrounded nook, a cloud-enshadowed land, which, when the surface of the globe, with its shoreless ocean and trackless continents, presents itself to my mind,…
1381…

Available for preorder: “The Life and Legend of a Rebel Leader: Wat Tyler” (2018)

14 Jul 201730 May 2018
My book entitled The Life and Legend of a Rebel Leader: Wat Tyler (Pen & Sword, 2018) is now available to preorder on Amazon and Waterstones's website. Follow the Amazon…
18th century…

The First Robin Hood Novel: Robert Southey’s “Harold, or, The Castle of Morford” (1791)

13 Jun 2017
(This is an updated version of an earlier post I made) Scholars generally point to 1819 as the year that the first Robin Hood novels appeared, these being the anonymous…
1381…

“The Bondman” (1833): Wat Tyler, Medievalism, and the Great Reform Act of 1832

21 Apr 201710 Sep 2017
In the course of my research for my book The Life and Legend of a Rebel Leader: Wat Tyler, due to be published by Pen & Sword in 2018, I…
18th century…

Rob Roy (1671-1734)

13 Jan 2017
A famous man is Robin Hood, The English ballad-singer's joy! And Scotland has a thief as good, An outlaw of as daring mood; She has her brave ROB ROY! Then…

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