192. Robin Hood

Join Tom Holland and Dominic Sandbrook as they uncover the origins of Robin Hood.
What was the earliest mention of Robin Hood in text? How has Robin Hood evolved through time to become the legend that he is today? Did he have a real-life counterpart?
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  • @leopictor
    @leopictor16 күн бұрын

    Great poem

  • @MrMarccj
    @MrMarccjАй бұрын

    I'm belly laughing listening to you two. Great stuff!

  • @GUSCRAWF0RD
    @GUSCRAWF0RDАй бұрын

    If they don’t bring up the Mel brooks film, I’m gonna lose my shit

  • @michaelbedford8017
    @michaelbedford8017 Жыл бұрын

    You forgot to mention Richard Greene, 'whoosh.... thunk...dooiing'.

  • @avigenuth4395
    @avigenuth4395 Жыл бұрын

    You didn’t mention Robin Hood: Men in Tights! The greatest and most accurate of all Robin Hood films!!!

  • @user-vs1ke1rx9e

    @user-vs1ke1rx9e

    3 ай бұрын

    I think that's because it's actually a documentary!

  • @ManiSRao-bt3xw

    @ManiSRao-bt3xw

    2 ай бұрын

    Also, the movie has the 1st mention of Jews in England

  • @avigenuth4395

    @avigenuth4395

    2 ай бұрын

    @@ManiSRao-bt3xw 😂😂😂 A Jew, in England???

  • @GUSCRAWF0RD

    @GUSCRAWF0RD

    Ай бұрын

    Unlike some other Robin Hoods, Carey elwes can speak with a British accent

  • @stephensmith4240
    @stephensmith42402 ай бұрын

    As a Spurs fan I am delighted to find that ‘Gazza’ has a connection to Robin Hood via Raoul Moat. Great episode.

  • @mjweber0313
    @mjweber0313 Жыл бұрын

    Well done gentlemen. Good episode.

  • @offbeatinstruments
    @offbeatinstruments Жыл бұрын

    My stepmother lives in Little Johns Cottage in Hathersage on the site of a house he lived in. He is buried in the local graveyard and there is a stone headstone that details his history there.

  • @grahamparkin5568
    @grahamparkin55683 ай бұрын

    In the 1200s, popularly thought to be the time of Robin Hood, Sherwood covered about 100,000 acres, which was a fifth of the entire county of Nottinghamshire. The main London to York road, the Great North Way, ran straight through Sherwood, and travellers were often at the mercy of robbers living outside of the law.

  • @dontcare5998
    @dontcare5998 Жыл бұрын

    I think there needs to be a podcast dedicated to Alan Rickman.

  • @robertdarby6553

    @robertdarby6553

    Жыл бұрын

    He completely acted Kevin Costner off the stage.

  • @dontcare5998

    @dontcare5998

    Жыл бұрын

    @@robertdarby6553Of the stage, out of the theatre and ran him out of town. His greatest role in my opinion is in Galaxy Quest.

  • @granthurlburt4062
    @granthurlburt40622 ай бұрын

    Are there people who enjoy hearing a couple of people talking about their personal reasons for liking Robin Hood, their partial knowledge of Robin Hood, and making weak jokes, instead of learning about Robin Hood?

  • @ogvikinggoddess724
    @ogvikinggoddess724 Жыл бұрын

    Really enjoyed the content. It says your channel is new, keep it up and yall will blow up in no time. I found yall when I ran out of dan carlins, the historcrat and other podcasters/podcast of the sorts.

  • @corinth492
    @corinth4923 ай бұрын

    surely just refers to a medieval robber who wears a hood.

  • @astondriver
    @astondriver Жыл бұрын

    No mention of the Robin Hood movie with Basil Rathbone and Erryl Flynn? Or Sean Connery and Audrey Hepburn?

  • @robertdarby6553

    @robertdarby6553

    Жыл бұрын

    Errol Flynn does get a mention. "It's the injustice I hate, not the Normans."

  • @ruthmckittrick6279
    @ruthmckittrick627910 ай бұрын

    Instantly became one of my favourite podcasts and quite the feat to be blasphemous and atheistic, in the same breath.

  • @ropeburnsrussell
    @ropeburnsrussell3 ай бұрын

    What about Robin and the 7 Hoods?

  • @JC-KeepSmiling
    @JC-KeepSmiling Жыл бұрын

    I'm from Nottingham and we don't talk like that round here me duck.

  • @nealolson8814
    @nealolson8814 Жыл бұрын

    Sob the story arc of Robyn le Hood is simple yeoman who is an outlaw because he's first and only truly loyal to an earthly virgin mother of god, and it ends with him bled out as an immortal by the murderous mouth of a vampire abbess? Is that a longbow flexed to the round?

  • @michaelbedford8017
    @michaelbedford8017 Жыл бұрын

    Berkshire!? Was he the former stockbroker who had to hide in the greenwood following some bouncing cheques.