William Hoff

Stumbled across this fun project - 3D recreation of the Rose Playhouse c.1595, where the first Robin Hood play "George a Greene" was performed in 1593-94, along with the Huntington plays in (probably) April-May 1598 🌳🏹🎯 Watch the fly-though here 👇
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From Philip Henslowe's diary/account book/notebook, recording the commission of "The Downfall of Robert, Earle of Huntington" from Anthony Munday in February 1598 🏹 Very last entry: "layd owt vnto antony monday the 15 of febreary 1598 for a playe boocke called the first parte of Robyne Hoode"

This is perfect for procrastinating from writing a difficult third chapter 😂🔥✨️ @maklelan.bsky.social

‘Okay which one of you accidentally added Robert Cecil to the chat?’

Chuffed that my review of the new and really rather important collection "Historians on Robin Hood" is out today via @northernhistory.bsky.social 🔥 Thanks to the team for sending me the book to comb through (and already wear out!) 🌳🏹🎯 Link here: doi.org/10.1080/0078...

I'm enjoying all the clever "calling yourself a king doesn't make you a king" posts, but also thinking that from a medieval perspective, that is kind of exactly how it starts, so...

Getting back into social media with the reminder that, no matter what happens in A24's "The Death of Robin Hood", we have a dirty 'tache for the first time in over 30 years, and that's a win 🔥🌳🏹🎯

This guy gets it - a picture of a medieval scribe working on a manuscript with a slightly concerned look on his face. Clear worried he had missed our first CFP deadline. Detail of a miniature of Guillaume de Lorris or Jean de Meun at work writing the text, from the Roman de la Rose, Netherlands (Bruges), c. 1490 – c. 1500, British Library Harley MS 4425, f. 133r

EXTENDED CFP! We've had a great deal of interest in our conference at University of Melbourne in December, and seen lots of panel and paper proposals come through, but we want more! Ignore the deadline on website, we'll accept submissions up to 28 Feb.

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My best @maklelan.bsky.social voice: "Alright, let's see it" 🌳🏹🎯

Hi everyone, can you help one of my students with her MA dissertation? Amy is exploring the motivations, influences & ambitions of those who practice history (from professionals to amateurs, paid to hobbyist). Fill in her survey to add your experience (& please share): forms.office.com/e/mFNv6tAqxn

I'm doing it - I'm plugging my Instagram 😂 If you're there and interested in Robin from his medieval origins to movies, come by and I promise I'll post more this year 🤞 Search "True History of Robin Hood" on Insta 📸 Snippet from today's post... 🌳🏹🎯

Starting the new year with a lovely surprise - the first citations to my work in other works! 💚 In the excellent new collection "Historians on Robin Hood" ed. Stephen Rigby. Buried amongst some very good company here - a totally normal experience for some, but nice for my list of firsts! 😊

It's only bloody Christmas 🪓🎄👑⭐️

Ynterviewer: Kan you explayne thys gap yn your resume?

Dante Alighieri: Yn the middle of thys journeye of lyfe Ich founde myselfe yn a shadowye woode, for...

There's surely a missing tradition (but probably as ephemeral as it gets) about Much the Miller's Son - why Robin Hood's third of three primary named merries is the son of a miller, enough to bear repeating in later C15 lit 🤔

Vlado Chernozemski, who assassinated King Alexander I of Yugoslavia, belonged in his youth to a club that was devoted to a game of regicide.

In the game, known as "chess," contestants subtly maneuver into a position that allows them to topple the opponent's monarch.

this is what it must have felt like to hear Robin Hood stories in 1370

Yes I did detour on day one of my lovely honeymoon in Hobart to find the building Errol Flynn was born in 🏹 But there was a community historical society christmas market across the street, so win bloody win ✌️

There's a Robin Hood Christmas movie begging to be made. A snowy, cosy medieval aesthetic with a theme of radical kindness? ✨️Begging✨️ to be made.

This, from a country whose economy has, for more than 20 years, been substantially subsidised by the benefits flowing from connection to a major movie franchise associated with a piece of fantasy literature...

With a PSA to clarify that this is referring to both sides of the argument - both are 100% correct 100% of the time, who knew? 😂

I say unbiased but persuaded more by @nathenamin.bsky.social and the ol' simplest-explanation-is-likely route. Richard can be responsible (however indirectly, like Henry II) but also be just a normal guy. More nuance js important. Crucial even. But the sanctification of Richard is just weird 🤷‍♂️

Historians like to think they're critical thinkers until Richard III has them shipping like 2011 tumblr. Two documentaries in 12 months? "Will no-one rid me of these troublesome boys?" 👑

Genuinely makes me sad that history is filled with so many incredible fascinating stories yet the most popular history show on Netflix is some dipshit looking at old civilisations and just going "looks like they used secret technology or magic to build this"

Actual quote from my PhD application 💀🏹

Anyone at PMRG a few weeks ago heard my rambling about what they got wrong in 2010 and 2018's "safe" adaptations - and what they got so completely right in 2019 and 2023's modern-day ones 🏹 Less platitudes and more agency 🔥

That being said, the assessment from Lorris Chevalier that they were so focussed on the idea of modernisation that they forgot to make a RH movie is 🔥

Not defending 2018's Robin Hood (though it's totally a guilty pleasure!), but the film opens on a comic book which we zoom into to enter its explicitly fantasy world. His machine-stitched hood is unforgivable, but it's not trying to be medieval 🏹 The Grinch isn't about Easter 🎄

A woman in blue at the top of a castle is striking a man in red on the head with her sword. He seems to fall from the ladder he was climbing as is it enters his skull. The woman has a look on her face that says "Don't mess with me." Reference: The Smithfield Decretals, BL Royal 10 E. IV (14th C)

Women couldn't be outlawed in 13th-century England because they were never put in law. Instead, women accused of crimes were ordered to be waived if they failed to appear at trial. The consequence of waivery was the same as outlawry's: execution (often immediately and without trial). 🧵1/4