What have historians said about Robin Hood, who he was, and the social and political context in which the early tales emerged?
Robin Hood: The Academic Study of a Legend | Stephen Basdeo
An Early Socialist History of the Peasants’ Revolt: Charles Edmund Maurice’s “Lives of English Popular Leaders of the Middle Ages” (1875)
Charles Edmund Maurice was a Barrister, History Lecturer, and committed Christian Socialist. In 1875, he authored one of the first socialist histories of the rebellion of 1381.