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My Forthcoming Book: “The Lives and Exploits of the Most Noted Highwaymen, Rogues, and Murderers” (2018)

23 Dec 2016
In addition to my PhD thesis entitled ‘The Changing Faces of Robin Hood, c.1700-c.1900’ and my forthcoming book, The Mob Reformer: The Life and Legend of Wat Tyler (2018), I…
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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…
18th century…

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

18 Nov 2016
The first Robin Hood novel to be published was the anonymous Robin Hood: A Tale of the Olden Time (1819). A few months after this Walter Scott published his enormously…
19th Century…

The Peterloo Massacre & Walter Scott’s “Ivanhoe” (1819)

2 Nov 20164 Nov 2016
I have written many times about Walter Scott’s Ivanhoe (1819) on this website. It is perhaps the greatest of all Robin Hood novels. Scholars have often been puzzled, however, as…
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…

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