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"Written by Reds, Under the beds, Robin Hood, Robin Hood, Robin Hood!" The 18th century eccentric who "invented" the noble bandit, and the American communists who reinvented him, in this week's Rebel Britannia:
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Early December, Every Year:
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December 8, 2025 at 1:50 PM
"Written by Reds, Under the beds, Robin Hood, Robin Hood, Robin Hood!" The 18th century eccentric who "invented" the noble bandit, and the American communists who reinvented him, in this week's Rebel Britannia:
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Reviews of Michael Connelly, Michael Z Lewin, Louise Penny, J Jefferson Farjeon, in the Morning Star's crime fiction column: morningstaronline.co.uk/article/crim...
Crime fiction with Mat Coward: December 2, 2025
MICKEY HALLER, “the Lincoln Lawyer,” has had a change of venue since we last met him. He’s abandoned his criminal work for appearing in the civil courts of LA - but that doesn’t seem to mean dealing w...
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December 3, 2025 at 11:02 AM
Reviews of Michael Connelly, Michael Z Lewin, Louise Penny, J Jefferson Farjeon, in the Morning Star's crime fiction column: morningstaronline.co.uk/article/crim...
When the English government's scheme to finance an invasion of France led to armed rebels mustering in Suffolk - and who the king blamed when it all went wrong, in this week's Rebel Britannia: rebelbrit.substack.com/p/rebel-brit...
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29th November 1530:
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December 1, 2025 at 11:52 AM
When the English government's scheme to finance an invasion of France led to armed rebels mustering in Suffolk - and who the king blamed when it all went wrong, in this week's Rebel Britannia: rebelbrit.substack.com/p/rebel-brit...
The 15th baronet who became a Liberal MP then a Common Wealth MP then a Labour MP then an independent MP then a school teacher - and donated his vast estates to the National Trust, in this week's Rebel Britannia: rebelbrit.substack.com/p/rebel-brit...
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24th November 1990:
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November 24, 2025 at 1:04 PM
The 15th baronet who became a Liberal MP then a Common Wealth MP then a Labour MP then an independent MP then a school teacher - and donated his vast estates to the National Trust, in this week's Rebel Britannia: rebelbrit.substack.com/p/rebel-brit...
Jack Sheppard, the prison-escaper who became such a hero to the poor of London that a century later it was illegal to portray him on stage - in this week's Rebel Britannia: rebelbrit.substack.com/p/rebel-brit...
November 17, 2025 at 12:41 PM
Jack Sheppard, the prison-escaper who became such a hero to the poor of London that a century later it was illegal to portray him on stage - in this week's Rebel Britannia: rebelbrit.substack.com/p/rebel-brit...
The Loughton Lopper, an illiterate labourer arrested for cutting firewood, is the reason Epping Forest still exists - in this week's Rebel Britannia:
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11th November 1865:
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November 11, 2025 at 1:11 PM
The Loughton Lopper, an illiterate labourer arrested for cutting firewood, is the reason Epping Forest still exists - in this week's Rebel Britannia:
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Reviews of Samir Machado de Machado, Salman Shaheen, Keri Beevis, Ken Bruen and Jason Starr in the Morning Star's crime fiction column: morningstaronline.co.uk/article/crim...
Crime fiction with Mat Coward: November 2025
HERE's a string of descriptors I've never used before: Samir Machado de Machado's novella The Good Nazi (Pushkin Vertigo, £12.99) is a Brazilian whodunnit set on a 1933 Zeppelin flight, against a back...
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November 5, 2025 at 11:29 AM
Reviews of Samir Machado de Machado, Salman Shaheen, Keri Beevis, Ken Bruen and Jason Starr in the Morning Star's crime fiction column: morningstaronline.co.uk/article/crim...
Author of Memoirs of a Spacewoman, proofreader of Lord of the Rings, co-author as a kid of Reduplication in Mice - and honestly, that's just scratching the surface of Naomi Mitchison's astonishingly full life, in this week's Rebel Britannia: rebelbrit.substack.com/p/rebel-brit...
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1st November 1897:
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November 3, 2025 at 1:32 PM
Author of Memoirs of a Spacewoman, proofreader of Lord of the Rings, co-author as a kid of Reduplication in Mice - and honestly, that's just scratching the surface of Naomi Mitchison's astonishingly full life, in this week's Rebel Britannia: rebelbrit.substack.com/p/rebel-brit...
The short, dramatic life of Freeborn John - including the time he prayed to the Lord during a trial and the scaffolding collapsed - in this week's Rebel Britannia: rebelbrit.substack.com/p/rebel-brit...
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24th October 1649:
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October 27, 2025 at 12:36 PM
The short, dramatic life of Freeborn John - including the time he prayed to the Lord during a trial and the scaffolding collapsed - in this week's Rebel Britannia: rebelbrit.substack.com/p/rebel-brit...
When demobbed soldiers smashed every window in Downing Street - plus the man on the white horse, the red flag and the weaponised umbrella, in this week's Rebel Britannia rebelbrit.substack.com/p/rebel-brit...
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18th October 1920:
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October 20, 2025 at 10:23 AM
When demobbed soldiers smashed every window in Downing Street - plus the man on the white horse, the red flag and the weaponised umbrella, in this week's Rebel Britannia rebelbrit.substack.com/p/rebel-brit...
The Blasphemy Machine - how to sell banned books without getting nicked in the 1820s, in this week's Rebel Britannia: rebelbrit.substack.com/p/rebel-brit...
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12th October 1819:
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October 13, 2025 at 12:18 PM
The Blasphemy Machine - how to sell banned books without getting nicked in the 1820s, in this week's Rebel Britannia: rebelbrit.substack.com/p/rebel-brit...
Reviews of Jo Cunningham, Mick Herron, Harriet Fox, Chris Hammer in this month's Morning Star crime fiction column: morningstaronline.co.uk/article/crim...
Crime fiction with Mat Coward: October 7, 2025
UNA the anxious actuary is back, in A Calculated Murder by Jo Cunningham (Constable, £10.99). The insurance company she works for has her investigating whether keeping a pet increases life expectancy....
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October 9, 2025 at 1:22 PM
Reviews of Jo Cunningham, Mick Herron, Harriet Fox, Chris Hammer in this month's Morning Star crime fiction column: morningstaronline.co.uk/article/crim...
Chalking the walls with "bluemould" - the pre-digital way of getting people ready for the Battle of Bexley Square, in this week's Rebel Britannia: rebelbrit.substack.com/p/rebel-brit...
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October 1st 1931:
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October 6, 2025 at 1:48 PM
Chalking the walls with "bluemould" - the pre-digital way of getting people ready for the Battle of Bexley Square, in this week's Rebel Britannia: rebelbrit.substack.com/p/rebel-brit...
Trotskyist plotter, Knight Bachelor, Commander of the British Empire, inmate of Wormwood Scrubs, world-famous composer: the several lives of Sir Michael Tippett, in this week's Rebel Britannia: rebelbrit.substack.com/p/rebel-brit...
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30th September most years:
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September 29, 2025 at 9:39 AM
Trotskyist plotter, Knight Bachelor, Commander of the British Empire, inmate of Wormwood Scrubs, world-famous composer: the several lives of Sir Michael Tippett, in this week's Rebel Britannia: rebelbrit.substack.com/p/rebel-brit...
The Cotswolds tobacco riots of 1652, in this week's Rebel Britannia: rebelbrit.substack.com/p/rebel-brit...
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19th September 1667:
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September 22, 2025 at 12:00 PM
The Cotswolds tobacco riots of 1652, in this week's Rebel Britannia: rebelbrit.substack.com/p/rebel-brit...
The revolutionary who tried to assassinate Oliver Cromwell - and again ... and again ... If a job's worth doing, it's worth doing incompetently and repeatedly: in this week's Rebel Britannia rebelbrit.substack.com/p/rebel-brit...
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September 17th 1656:
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September 15, 2025 at 9:44 AM
The revolutionary who tried to assassinate Oliver Cromwell - and again ... and again ... If a job's worth doing, it's worth doing incompetently and repeatedly: in this week's Rebel Britannia rebelbrit.substack.com/p/rebel-brit...
September 15, 2025 at 9:43 AM
Reviews of Don Carpenter, Jo Jakeman, Martin Edwards, Harry Whitehead, in the Morning Star crime fiction column: morningstaronline.co.uk/article/crim...
Crime fiction with Mat Coward: September 9, 2025
A STILL admired US crime novel of the 1960s, Hard Rain Falling by Don Carpenter (Penguin Classics, £10.99), tracks the fortunes of a group of lost boys from the 1940s to the 1960s, from teenage hustli...
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September 10, 2025 at 10:00 AM
Reviews of Don Carpenter, Jo Jakeman, Martin Edwards, Harry Whitehead, in the Morning Star crime fiction column: morningstaronline.co.uk/article/crim...
In 1979 a British woman made news worldwide when she was elected to an important political office. No, not Maggie Thatcher - this was a Communist schoolteacher called Annie, in this week's Rebel Britannia: rebelbrit.substack.com/p/rebel-brit...
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8th September 1906:
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September 8, 2025 at 12:44 PM
In 1979 a British woman made news worldwide when she was elected to an important political office. No, not Maggie Thatcher - this was a Communist schoolteacher called Annie, in this week's Rebel Britannia: rebelbrit.substack.com/p/rebel-brit...
The jurors said Not Guilty, so the judge sent them to jail - no food, no water, no chamber pots. The origins of the "perverse verdict," one of our most important liberties, in this week's Rebel Britannia rebelbrit.substack.com/p/rebel-brit...
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1st September 1670:
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September 2, 2025 at 9:40 AM
The jurors said Not Guilty, so the judge sent them to jail - no food, no water, no chamber pots. The origins of the "perverse verdict," one of our most important liberties, in this week's Rebel Britannia rebelbrit.substack.com/p/rebel-brit...
In 1918 bus conductors got a 5 shilling war bonus. "Conductorettes" didn't. The resulting equal pay strike left London with an atmosphere "suggesting a deserted village." This week's Rebel Britannia rebelbrit.substack.com/p/rebel-brit...
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26th August 1918:
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August 25, 2025 at 12:09 PM
In 1918 bus conductors got a 5 shilling war bonus. "Conductorettes" didn't. The resulting equal pay strike left London with an atmosphere "suggesting a deserted village." This week's Rebel Britannia rebelbrit.substack.com/p/rebel-brit...
"Honest Tom" Wharton, a founder of the Treason Club, author of a viral 17th century song lyric, crucial figure in the evolution of the British constitution, but mostly famous for urinating in a church - in this week's Rebel Britannia:
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15th August 1682:
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August 18, 2025 at 12:07 PM
"Honest Tom" Wharton, a founder of the Treason Club, author of a viral 17th century song lyric, crucial figure in the evolution of the British constitution, but mostly famous for urinating in a church - in this week's Rebel Britannia:
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Reviews of Yasuhiko Nishizawa, Jo Piazza, Philip Gwynne Jones, MW Craven, in the latest Morning Star crime fiction column: morningstaronline.co.uk/article/crim...
Crime fiction with Mat Coward: August 12, 2025
WEALTHY businessman Reijiro gathers his family together for a seasonal celebration — and to torment them as he constantly changes the terms of his will according to his whims — in The Man Who Died Sev...
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August 14, 2025 at 1:59 PM
Reviews of Yasuhiko Nishizawa, Jo Piazza, Philip Gwynne Jones, MW Craven, in the latest Morning Star crime fiction column: morningstaronline.co.uk/article/crim...
Meet the General Union of Clickers and Rough-stuff Cutters, The Cardroom Amalgamation - and many other long-vanished trades unions, in this week's Rebel Britannia: rebelbrit.substack.com/p/rebel-brit...
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8th August 1919:
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August 11, 2025 at 11:59 AM
Meet the General Union of Clickers and Rough-stuff Cutters, The Cardroom Amalgamation - and many other long-vanished trades unions, in this week's Rebel Britannia: rebelbrit.substack.com/p/rebel-brit...
The 82-year-old accountant arrested as a terrorist for shouting "nonsense!" at a politician - remembering Walter Wolfgang, in this week's Rebel Britannia: rebelbrit.substack.com/p/rebel-brit...
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3rd August 2006:
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August 4, 2025 at 10:01 AM
The 82-year-old accountant arrested as a terrorist for shouting "nonsense!" at a politician - remembering Walter Wolfgang, in this week's Rebel Britannia: rebelbrit.substack.com/p/rebel-brit...