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18th century…

The Working Man’s Robin Hood: The Writings of Allan Cunningham (1784–1842)

24 Jan 202024 Jan 2020
By Stephen Basdeo In 1832, the publisher Charles Knight had a bright idea: every Saturday he would publish a new magazine which whose aim was to educate working-class readers about…
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…
18th century…

A Never-Before-Seen Poem by Robert Southey, written in 1791

5 Oct 2019
Edited by Stephen Basdeo and Mark Truesdale The summer of 1791 was an unusually wet one. The young schoolboy, and future Poet Laureate, Robert Southey, therefore had a lot of…
18th century…

Joseph Ritson the Radical

5 Sep 201915 Mar 2020
By Stephen Basdeo Joseph Ritson was born in Stockton-on-Tees in 1752 to a poor yeoman family. As a child, he attended the local Unitarian Sunday School where his talents intellectual…
19th Century…

“The Vision” by Robin Hood (1841)

16 Jul 2019
Everyone of course loves to investigate appearances of the name of Robin Hood in medieval court records. One of these days, it might finally be proven who the “real” Robin…

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