Chartism… The Glorious Trio: Robin Hood, Wat Tyler, and Hereward the Wake 8 Apr 2021 I recently had the honour to have a chapter appear in a book edited by Mike Sanders (Twitter @bronterre1) and David Matthews titled Subaltern Medievalisms: Medievalism 'from Below' in Nineteenth-Century…
Ernst Junger… The Forest Rebel 20 Feb 202120 Feb 2021 “His hand was against every man, and every man's hand against him”—Genesis “The world was not his friend, nor the world’s law”—Shakespeare A German academic, colleague and close friend, Alexander Wimmer (LMU Munich), recently…
19th Century… Playing Robin Hood in the Victorian Nursery 21 Jun 202021 Jun 2020 By Stephen Basdeo Thomas Rowland argues that for most of the “mythic” outlaw’s history, “Robin was much more a character of ludic texts, of play games and festival culture, than…
19th Century… “Saxon Grit” 23 Apr 2020 St George’s Day seems as fitting time as ever to publish a “new” Robin Hood poem I found titled “Saxon Grit” in the archives of a long-defunct Christian socialist magazine…
20th Century… “They had never heard of Robin Hood”: Remarks from George Orwell’s “A Clergyman’s Daughter” (1935) 3 Mar 2020 By Stephen Basdeo Robin Hood has on occasion been accused of being a hero who appears mainly in literature for the middle classes. The first ever printed copies of A…
14th Century… Adam Bell, Clim of the Clough and William of Cloudeslie 20 Feb 2020 By Stephen Basdeo Stories of Robin Hood have been popular since at least the late fourteenth century, as we know from William Langland’s Vision of Piers Plowman (c.1377). However, around…
