1381… “The Bondman” (1833): Wat Tyler, Medievalism, and the Great Reform Act of 1832 21 Apr 201710 Sep 2017 In the course of my research for my book The Life and Legend of a Rebel Leader: Wat Tyler, due to be published by Pen & Sword in 2018, I…
1381… ‘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…
14th Century… My Forthcoming Book: “The Mob Reformer: The Life and Legend of Wat Tyler” (2018) 21 Oct 2016 I have recently been contracted by a commercial publisher to write a popular history book entitled The Mob Reformer: The Life and Legend of Wat Tyler which is due for…
14th Century… Wat Tyler: 18th- & 19th-Century Literary Afterlives 30 Jun 201630 Jun 2016 “When Adam delved and Eve span, who then was the gentleman?” - John Ball, Radical Preacher, 14th Century Late fourteenth-century England had its fair share of problems: socio-economic tensions had…
19th Century… Radical Ideas in the Penny Serials of Pierce Egan the Younger (1814-1880) 19 Jan 2016 Scholars will have heard of a Pierce Egan (1772-1849), the Regency author who wrote famous works such as Life in London (1821). His son, Pierce James Egan (1814-1880), however, deserves…
