All of the newspapers which covered the event paid significant attention to the panel on Robin Hood, which, if it happened to a Robin Hood conference today, would be a significant publicity coup.
Victorian-Era Robin Hood Conferences | Stephen Basdeo
The Life and Work of Victorian Robin Hood Scholar John Mathew Gutch (1776–1861)
John Mathew Gutch is often overlooked by modern Robin Hood scholars but, for a brief period in the Victorian era, he was the UK’s most famous Robin Hood historian.