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 titled The Labour Prophet in 1892.
“Saxon Grit”
Life of a Little-Known Chartist
“A plebeian fighting for the poor and rewarded with poverty.”
An English Republican’s View of Crime and its Causes
G. W. M. Reynolds, the “vicious republican” of the Victorian era, attributed the cause of all crime to the the existence of the royal family and the political establishment.
New York’s 19th-Century Underclass: The Work of Jacob A. Riis (1849-1914) | Stephen Basdeo
Stephen Basdeo takes a look at the life of one of New York’s pioneering social reformers, Jacob A. Riis.