OFH Throwback - Episode #50 - Was There a Real Robin Hood? (Part II)
Our Fake History
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🗓️ 2 September 2025
⏱️ 57 minutes
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Summary
In this throwback episode Sebastian takes you to the conclusion of this fan-favorite season 3 series. Almost as long as people have been telling stories about Robin Hood, historians have been trying to find the real person who inspired the legend. Over the centuries dozens of researchers have cooked up elaborate theories in an attempt to locate the man who became the myth. Were any of them successful in finding a “real” Robin Hood? Tune-in and find out how piggy-back-rides, dog-summoners, and fake family trees all play a role in the story.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to this throwback episode of Our Fake History. |
| 0:12.6 | This week, I am throwing you back to season three and episode 50, Was There a real Robin Hood, part two? |
| 0:23.2 | Now, I have really enjoyed revisiting these episodes because they've been a nice reminder |
| 0:29.8 | of how our fake history should flow. |
| 0:34.6 | What do I mean by that? |
| 0:36.6 | Well, I think when the podcast is at its best, I've got a good |
| 0:41.0 | balance between storytelling and historical detective work. In this series, I think I managed to |
| 0:47.5 | indulge in some really fun Robin Hood stories while also keeping my eye on the prize, as it were. The hunt for the historical Robin Hood stories while also keeping my eye on the prize, as it were. The hunt for the historical |
| 0:57.9 | Robin Hood can be a twisty, turny affair, and I felt really proud that I was able to describe |
| 1:04.5 | some complex historical arguments while not getting lost in the weeds. One of the unintended |
| 1:10.4 | side effects of having more time to work on the podcast is that |
| 1:15.1 | I find that I indulge in more historical context and am more open to following historical |
| 1:22.1 | tangents where they might take me. |
| 1:24.7 | Now, I know those of you out there who are real deep history heads like that |
| 1:29.3 | kind of stuff, but this series reminded me that the show works best when it is brisk and I'm keeping |
| 1:35.6 | my eye on the prize. So that's been nice to reconnect with. Now, in this particular episode, |
| 1:43.9 | I was reminded that this was one of the few times |
| 1:47.1 | where I really had to set my personal feelings and biases aside. When I came into this particular |
| 1:54.4 | topic, I was really hoping that I would find a historical Robin Hood. But as you shall hear, the research took me in a |
| 2:05.9 | slightly different direction. And as such, I had to set aside my wants and desires and had to |
| 2:13.5 | follow the research. The other time I can think of this happening on the podcast was when I explored the question |
| 2:21.5 | of whether or not there were real Amazon warriors. |
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