Robin Hood

Dan Snow's History Hit

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🗓️ 30 August 2022

⏱️ 21 minutes

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Summary

Robin Hood is one of the most famous legends of British history, but did he exist and if so who was he? Gareth Morgan, Learning Development Officer at Nottingham Castle, is just the man to help separate fact from fiction when it comes to this archetypal hero who robbed the rich to give to the poor. Gareth helps Dan discover some of the real-life figures which might have inspired Robin, what the story means both now and then and why it still remains so popular. They also talk about Robin's home Sherwood Forest, which may not be quite what many imagine it to be, and the newly renovated Nottingham Castle home of Robin's arch-nemesis the Sheriff of Nottingham.

This episode was first released on July 18th 2021.

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0:35.0	Robin Hood.
0:36.0	Robin Hood.
0:38.0	Well, the most famous legends of English history.
0:43.0	Did it exist?
0:44.0	Who was he?
0:45.0	Did you take the form of a fox to try and outsmart the feline sheriff of Nortigan?
0:51.0	Or did you have such a bad sensor geography like Kevin Kossner,
0:55.0	who landed at the Whiteclifster overland on the south coast of England,
0:58.0	and suggested walking inland and being in Nortigan by nightfall?
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