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Tag: Robin Hood Studies

19th Century…

The Life and Work of Victorian Robin Hood Scholar John Mathew Gutch (1776–1861)

13 Jan 2020
By Stephen Basdeo The modern scholarly study of the Robin Hood legend began with the pioneering work of Joseph Ritson who in 1795 published Robin Hood: A Collection of all…
History…

Stephen Basdeo’s “Robin Hood” Radio Segment

12 Oct 2019
As most people know, I've spent a significant amount of time researching and writing about the legend of Robin Hood. Having written a Ph.D. thesis on the legend, it was…
17th century…

“Robin Hood’s Rescue of the Three Squires” and the Political Economy of Banditry

30 Mar 2018
Many Robin Hood ballads were printed as broadsides during the seventeenth century. The majority of them depict Robin Hood as a rather inept outlaw who, every time he stops somebody,…
20th Century…

Reading Robin Hood in World War Two (1939–45): Data from Mass Observation

27 Jan 2018
Before the twentieth century, Robin Hood was a literary figure: he is the main protagonist in a number of important literary works such as A Gest of Robyn Hode (c.…
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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‘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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