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Tag: Nineteenth Century

19th Century…

The Awakening Conscience

27 Jun 201927 Jun 2019
By Stephen Basdeo William Holman Hunt’s The Awakening Conscience (1853) is one of my favourite Pre-Raphaelite paintings. Holman Hunt was a religious man and this was a companion piece to…
19th Century…

George Emmett’s “Robin Hood and the Archers of Merrie Sherwood” (1868-69)

20 Oct 201620 Oct 2016
[All images taken from books in my personal collection – feel free to use] Further to my recent postings on Robin Hood in Victorian penny dreadfuls, this post sheds light…
19th Century…

Pernicious Trash? “The Prince of Archers, or, The Boyhood Days of Robin Hood”(1883)

16 Oct 2016
There is now before us such a veritable mountain of pernicious trash, mostly in paper covers, and “Price One Penny”; so-called novelettes, tales, stories of adventure, mystery and crime; pictures…
14th Century…

Historic Yorkshire Criminals: William Knipe’s “Criminal Chronology” (1867)

3 Jul 20163 Jul 2016
The eighteenth century was the period in which criminal biography flourished, when men such as Charles Johnson were publishing books such as Lives of the Highwaymen (1734) alongside serialised publications…
History…

Robin Hood’s Garland (1856)

18 Dec 201416 Apr 2015
When you begin researching the original Robin Hood ballads, the names of a few late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century antiquarians become familiar to you. The likes of Thomas Percy, an…

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