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        <li>[[irhb:Contact|Do you wish to write content for the site?]]</li>
        <li>New page: [[Barnsdale (Exton)]]</li>
        <li>New page: [[Scottish parliamentary act 1555]]</li>
        <li>New page: [[Scottish festivals - regulation and suppression]]</li>
        <li>New page: [[London festivals]]</li>
        <li>New page: [[Shooter's Hill festivals]]</li>
        <li>New page: [[Westminster festivals]]</li>
        <li>New allusion/chronicle entry: [[1577 - Holinshed, Raphael - Chronicles (1)]]</li>
        <li>New allusion/chronicle entry: [[1577 - Holinshed, Raphael - Chronicles (2)]]</li>
        <li>New allusion/chronicle entry: [[1577 - Holinshed, Raphael - Chronicles (3)]]</li>
        <li>New allusion/chronicle entry: [[1577 - Holinshed, Raphael - Chronicles (4)]]</li>
        <li>New allusion/chronicle entry: [[1577 - Holinshed, Raphael - Chronicles (5)]]</li>
        <li>New allusion/chronicle entry: [[1587 - Holinshed, Raphael - Chronicles (1)]]</li>
        <li>New allusion/chronicle entry: [[1587 - Holinshed, Raphael - Chronicles (2)]]</li>
        <li>New allusion/chronicle entry: [[1587 - Holinshed, Raphael - Chronicles (3)]]</li>
        <li>New allusion/chronicle entry: [[1587 - Holinshed, Raphael - Chronicles (4)]]</li>
        <li>Much updated: [[Pubs named the Green Man]]</li>
        <li>New allusion/chronicle entry: [[1509 - Fabyan, Robert - Fabyans Cronycle]]</li>
        <li>New allusion/chronicle entry: [[1521 - Major, John - Historia Maioris Britanniae]]</li>
        <li>New page: [[Robin Hood's Punch Bowl (Reagill)]]</li>
        <li>New page: [[Robin Hood's Chair (Reagill)]]</li>
        <li>New page: [[Robin Hood's Well (Catterlen)]]</li>
        <li>New page: [[1857 - Sullivan, Jeremiah - Cumberland and Westmorland (1)]]</li>
        <li>New page: [[1857 - Sullivan, Jeremiah - Cumberland and Westmorland (2)]]</li>
        <li>New page: [[Robin Hood's Grave (Crosby Ravensworth Fell)]]</li>
        <li>New page: [[1860 - Bland, John Salkeld - Vale of Lyvenett (1)]]</li>
        <li>New page: [[1860 - Bland, John Salkeld - Vale of Lyvenett (2)]]</li>
        <li>The 400th English place-name: [[Robin Friend (Sheringham)]]</li>
        <li>New page: [[Robin Hood's Chair (Ennerdale Water)]]</li>
        <li>New page: [[Wood for Hood]]</li>
        <li>New page. Going offshore: [[Robin Wood's Rock (Beadnell Bay)]]</li>
        <li>New page. Up north: [[Robin Hood's Bog (Chillingham)]]</li>
        <li>New page: [[Robin Hood's Well (Colwell)]]</li>
        <li>New page: [[Places named after Ivanhoe]]</li>
        <li>New page: [[Ashby-de-la-Zouch place-name cluster]]</li>
        <li>Site overhaul now finished. Shorter load latency. Easier navigation.</li>
        <li>New page: [[Robin Hood's Well (Nottingham) place-name cluster]]</li>
        <li>New page: [[Hathersage Church place-name cluster]]</li>
        <li>Allusion added: [[1771 - Pennant, Thomas - Tour in Scotland]]</li>
        <li>Two records and ten allusions mentioning [[Robin Hood's Bay]] added</li>
        <li>Newly added Durham field-name: [[Robin Hood Pond (Thorpe Thewles)]]</li>
        <li>Trace the career of [[Little John the mariner (record texts)|Edward II's mariner Little John]] (work in progress...)</li>
        <li>New page: [[1314 - John Petit of Shorne pardoned]]</li>
        <li>New page on the film [[1941 - Robin Hood of the Pecos|''Robin Hood of the Pecos'']] (1941)</li>
        <li>Five [[Cumberland place-names]] added</li>
        <li>New allusion: [[1604 - Barlow, William - Summe and Substance of Conference]]</li>
        <li>New allusion: [[1712 - Hearne, Thomas - Remarks and Collections]]</li>
        <li>New place-name: [[Robin Hood (St Mary Magdalen Parish, Oxford)]]</li>
        <li>New allusion: [[1661 - Wood, Anthony - Note on Robin Hood ballads]]</li>
        <li>New allusion: [[1563 - Foxe, John - Actes and Monuments (1)]]</li>
        <li>New allusion: [[1563 - Foxe, John - Actes and Monuments (2)]]</li>
        <li>New allusion: [[1563 - Foxe, John - Actes and Monuments (3)]]</li>
        <li>New page: [[Robinhoods Close (Brize Norton)]]</li>
        <li>New subsection on [[Festivals in Scotland]]</li>
        <li>18 [[Cheshire place-names]] added</li>
        <li>New page: [[Aberdeen festivals]]</li>
        <li>New: Google maps and charts in the [[Festivals]] section</li>
        <li>New page: [[Robin Hood's Cave (Rock Cemetery, Nottingham)]]</li>
        <li>New allusion: [[1583 - Robinson, Richard - Thirde Assertion Englishe Hystoricall]]</li>
        <li>New page: [[Peebles festivals]]</li>
        <li>New page: [[1568 - Grafton, Richard - Chronicle at large]]</li>
        <li>New page: [[Public houses named after Robin Hood]]</li>
        <li>New allusion: [[1985 - Fowles, John - A Maggot]]</li>
        <li>Improved page on [[1473 - Paston, John - To John Paston|John Paston's famous 1473 allusion]]</li>
        <li>New place-name: [[Robin Hood Ball (Netheravon)]] is not where some archaeologists think</li>
        <li>New page: [[Milton festivals|Milton festivals]] &ndash; 19th cent. Robin Hood festival in a Staffordshire town</li>
        <li>Click images to view them in a lightbox. Try it on the page on [[Fountains Abbey (Ripon)]]</li>
        <li>New page: [[Robin Hood Close (Barnsdale)]] &ndash; Newly discovered place-name in Barnsdale</li>
        <li>New pages: [[Robin Hood place-name cluster]] &ndash; 13 place-names in Robin Hood (Wakefield)</li>
        <li>New page: [[Rotherham place-name cluster]] &ndash; 2 place-names in Rotherham, West Riding of Yorkshire</li>
        <li>[[Robin Hood's Well (Nottingham)]] &ndash; long page on this important locality. Work in progress...</li>
        <li>New page: [[Robin Hood's Well (Laughton)]] &ndash; in Lincolnshire</li>
        <li>Recommended page: [[Marsk Stig]] &ndash; a Danish 13th century Robin Hood?</li>
        <li>New: complete episode summaries and cast list for [[1975 - Legend of Robin Hood]]</li>
        <li>Did you know there are plants named after Robin Hood? Meet [[Robin Hood - Silene dioica (plant name)|''Silene dioica'']]</lI>
        <li>New page: [[Robinhood Butts (Wiltshire)]] &ndash; unlocalized field or minor name first recorded 1669</li>
        <li>New page: [[Robin Hood and Little John (Hatfield Woodhouse)]]</li>
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=== By way of introduction ===
<p>It is hoped this wiki will in due course come to live up to its somewhat grand title. I have called it "International" because in addition to the vast amount of material that exists in English, I intend to add information about materials in other languages such as translations of ballads, secondary literature, children's fiction, literature on foreign analogues of Robin Hood etc. Arguably "Bibliography" is a misnomer as the site already includes a wealth of all sorts of information one would not normally expect to find in a bibliography, but the bibliographical aspect is in all cases taken quite seriously, and there is already a wiki named the Robin Hood Wiki, so I had to find another name for the site.</p>
=== Perennial work in progress ===
<p>The menu items in the sidebar provide a rough guide to the Robin Hood-related topics and genres that are covered on this site. Given the vastness of the Robin Hood tradition &mdash; and this is no exaggeration &mdash; the site will always remain work in progress. This is important to keep in mind when reading specific entries, for although I sometimes gather materials from several sources and write a more or less well-rounded in-depth page on some topic, more often than not I work my way through the sources and add the various nuggets they contain where I believe they belong in the structure I have created. So any entry may at a given time lack important pieces of information because I have not yet got round to adding them. Over time this problem should become less pronounced.</p>
<p>At present there is at least a little bit of information on each topic or area of interest. As time will permit I gradually add information under all these headings, but as there is such a wealth of data I have felt it necessary to focus on a couple of areas in order to retain the feeling &ndash; illusion? &ndash; that I am making measurable progress. Current high priority areas are [[Allusions|allusions]] (especially from the 16th and 17th centuries) and [[place-names|place-names]]. With regard to the latter a milestone was reached on 12 October 2014 in that all relevant names from the eight ''English Place-Name Society'' volumes for the West Riding of Yorkshire have now been entered: a good one hundred Robin Hood-related place-names and localities were found for that (important) area alone. My tally for Yorkshire alone now exceeds that of [[Gazetteers (place-names)|Dobson & Taylor]]<ref name="DobTayl">{{:Dobson, Richard Barrie 1976a}}, pp. 293-311</ref> for all of England, and in many cases I have been able to supplement or correct information they provide. My entries on specific localities are often written up into short articles and generally are accompanied by photos, Google maps, links to, or images of, [http://maps.nls.uk/os/ online O.S. maps at NLS], links to other sites with information, bibliographical lists and (where relevant) lists of quotations from ballad sources or from IRHB's Allusions section.


=== Maps, maps ===
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<p>In the spring of 2016 I embarked on a systematic search for Robin Hood-related place-names on the [http://maps.nls.uk/os/6inch-england-and-wales/index.html 6" O.S. maps of England and Wales at NLS]. There are [http://maps.nls.uk/series/index.html 38,370 maps], so in order to reduce the magnitude of the task I decided to focus on England and first edition map sheets only. However, when a sheet is found to include a relevant place-name, I also check all later revisions available at NLS. Very likely the 25" series would yield still more place-names, but scanning of the 25" sheets is still ongoing at NLS; currently 59,336 sheets, a little more than one-third, have been processed and put online, and these all cover the South and South Midlands, areas of England with far fewer Robin Hood-related place-names than the North Midlands and the North. So far I have worked my way through all the 6" sheets of Yorkshire, Nottinghamshire, Lancashire, Derbyshire, Durham, Cheshire, and Rutland, Shropshire etc. I am currently checking Norfolk, where I do not expect to find many relevant place-names. The search so far has yielded a good many 'new' place-names which are added to the site by and by. I am also in the process of checking all English Place-Name Society volumes for relevant material, most but not all of which is included in Dobson & Taylor.<ref name="DobTayl" /></p>
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== Short introduction ==
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We hope that this wiki will in due course come to live up to its somewhat grand name. It is called 'International' because in addition to the vast amount of material that exists in English, we intend to add information about materials in other languages such as translations of ballads, secondary literature, children's fiction, literature on foreign analogues of Robin Hood etc. Arguably 'Bibliography' is a misnomer as the site already includes a wealth of all sorts of information one would not nor&shy;mally expect to find in a biblio&shy;gra&shy;phy, but the biblio&shy;gra&shy;phical aspect is in all cases taken quite seriously, and there is already a wiki named the Robin Hood Wiki, so another name had to be found for the site.</div>
== Latest news ==
<div style="font-weight:600; font-size:18px; padding-bottom:1em;">NEW subsite: <span style="font-style:italic;">IRHB Editions</span>, currently with a single edition: <span style="font-style:italic;">[https://www.irhb.org/editions/gest/edition.html A Gest of Robyn Hode]</span></div>
* 2024-03-12: All tithe awards for the following English counties have now been searched for Robin Hood-related place names: Bed&shy;ford&shy;shire, Berk&shy;shire, Cambridge&shy;shire, Che&shy;shire, Cum&shy;ber&shy;land, Der&shy;by&shy;shire, Hunting&shy;don&shy;shire, Lan&shy;ca&shy;shire, Lin&shy;coln&shy;shire, Middle&shy;sex, Notting&shy;ham&shy;shire, Rut&shy;land, West&shy;morl&shy;and, and York&shy;shire. Some fieldnames have yet to be entered, along with some 300 place names from other sources.
* 2022-06-16: the link to the Contact page in the Contact section below has not worked for a couple of weeks. It has now been fixed.
* 2021-01-10: two weeks of behind-the-scenes updates to IRHB have been completed. We apologize for any convenience this has caused in the form of instability, lack of responsiveness, and brief offline periods.
* 2020-12-30: [[Special:Contact|IRHB's contact form]] has not been working for a couple of weeks. This has now been fixed
* 2020-11-04: The 900th English Robin Hood-related place-name was entered
* 2020-06-09: a warm welcome to Jon Snurka. Jon will help add and update pages at IRHB. For now at least, his chief focus will be on [[Juvenile|Children's books]] and [[Films]]
* 2018-04-27: a systematic search for Robin Hood-related place-names in the thousands of [http://maps.nls.uk/os/6inch-england-and-wales/index.html 6" O.S. maps of England online at the map subsite of the National Library of Scotland] was completed. This was begun about two years earlier. About one hundred of the 'new' place-names found have yet to be added to the site
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== Work in progress ==
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The menu items in the top right area of the site &ndash; or just below the site logo when the page is viewed on a small device &ndash; provide a rough guide to the topics and genres covered on IRHB. Given the vastness of the Robin Hood tradition &mdash; and this is no exaggeration &mdash; the site will always remain a work in progress. This is important to keep in mind when reading specific entries, for although we sometimes gather materials from several sources and write a more or less well-rounded in-depth page on some topic, more often than not we work our way through the sources and add the various nuggets they contain where we believe they belong in the structure we have created. So any entry may at a given time lack important pieces of information because nobody has got round to adding them yet. Over time this problem should become less pronounced. At present there is at least some information on each topic or area of interest. As time permits, we gradually add information under all headings, but as there is such a wealth of data we have felt it necessary to focus, for the time being, on a few areas in order to retain the feeling &ndash; illusion? &ndash; that we are making measurable progress. Current high priority areas are [[place-names|place-names]], [[Allusions|allusions]] (especially from the 16th and 17th centuries), [[Historiography|historical records]], and [[Juvenile|children's books]].</div>
 
== Acknowledgements ==
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Henrik Thiil Nielsen, IRHB's webmaster and chief contributor, wishes to thank the following for help, information, photos, unpublished papers, encouragement, stimulating discussions, a Robin Hood teapot, a Robin Hood hat, etc.: Stefan Ahn; Mogens Andreasen, BA; Karl Bencke; Tom Bint, webmaster of the now defunct 'Deanweb', for permission to use photo; Jill Boyes and her aunt; Andy Burnham, founder of [https://www.megalithic.co.uk The Megalithic Portal], for permission to use materials; Professor Graham D. Caie; Chris; Mogens Christensen, MA; Tim Clough, Honorary Editor, [http://www.rutlandhistory.org Rutland Local History & Record Society;] Robert Crewdson; Dr David Crook; Andrew Dawson; Paul Dunnill; Malte Christian Thiil Ehlers, MA; Professor S&oslash;ren Balling Engelsen; Arild Frøyseth†; Karen Glente, MA; Inge Guldal, MPsych; Linda Hardy, Marketing & Events Officer at [http://sherwoodforest.org.uk/ The Sherwood Forest Trust]; Peter Harrod; Richard Hawlor; David Hepworth, PhD; [http://www.historiccountiestrust.co.uk/ The Historic Counties Trust] for permission to quote their county descriptions ''in toto''; Anders Hjorth-Jørgensen, librarian and comics expert; S&oslash;ren Bartholin Holm, MA; Professor Sir James Holt†; Andi Ingleby, manager of collection metadata production, British Library; [http://www.bluebellmountainblog.wordpress.com Julie Ann Johnson, BA, B Ed;] Annette Jung, MA; [http://www.brocross.com David Kitching] for permission to use photo; Gerner Dan Lauridsen, MA; [https://www.aditnow.co.uk/ Aditnow forum] user 'Lipsi' (Kelvin) for permission to use photos; [https://www.aditnow.co.uk/ Aditnow forum] administrator Simon Lowe; Robert Lynley who does historical sleuthing better and more doggedly than any other Robin Hood researcher; Tina Milaa, MA; [[Robin Hood Pond (Thorpe Thewles)|Bob Mullen;]] S&oslash;s Museth for books and comic books and things; Markus Kai Nielsen (no relation) for the IRHB logo; Tove Nielsen† for many talks and discussions; Vagn Thiil Nielsen† for his support, his many hours of photocopying and teaching me the uses of encyclopedias and dictionaries; Ingeborg Nixon†, PhD; [https://nottinghamhiddenhistoryteam.wordpress.com/ Nottingham Hidden History Team] through their liaison officer Mr Jimmy Notts for permission to use illustrations from their blog; Thomas Ohlgren, professor emeritus;  'Onewish1' (Allison), user of the National Gardening Association website; Ross Parish, author of [https://insearchofholywellsandhealingsprings.com/about-pixyled-publications/ books on English holy wells] and a [https://insearchofholywellsandhealingsprings.com/ blog on the same topic], for photos and information; Jan Eigil Pedersen; [http://www.megalithic.co.uk/user.php?op=userinfo&uname=TimPrevett Tim Prevett, MA,] [http://www.slowtelevision.blogspot.com/ producer, consultant and lecturer on slow TV,] for use of photos; Bente Prydts; Rich for photos and information; David Rogers; Eric E. Rush; Jan Ole Schelde†; Ian Short, professor emeritus; Hans-Christian Simonsen, MA; Paul Skelton for permission to use relevant materials from [http://www.dover-kent.com Kent's Public House Archive Site;] surveyor [http://www.jumpupmedia.co.uk/n-smith/ Nicholas Smith], his wife, and his mother Kate Smith for [[Robin Hood's Chair (Baildon)|photo and information]]; Jon Snurka for becoming a co-editor and contributor at IRHB; Vibeke Sommer, MA; Geoff Spencer; Frank Leo Stavik; Mimi Stawski; Anne T for permission to use photos and in&shy;for&shy;mation; [http://pub16.bravenet.com/forum/static/show.php?usernum=1318671680&frmid=394 Thorpe Thewles Local History Group;] [[Robin Hood Chase (Nottingham)|Stuart Timms;]] Colin Wooldridge for use of photo.</div>
 
== Participants wanted ==
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Unlike many other wikis, this one cannot be edited or added to by casual visitors who also cannot sign up via the site. The reason for this restrictive policy is that we wish to avoid vandalism and confine active membership to people with knowledge of the Robin Hood tradition. Contributors are more than welcome. There is really only one requirement: a serious interest in anything Hood. The learning curve is not steep if you are used to editing Wikipedia or other [https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:What_is_MediaWiki%3F Mediawiki] sites. If you do not wish to spend time and energy learning Wikipedia-style annotations, you are very welcome to write your contributions as plain text and let us handle the formatting. Your name will of course appear in the byline, and others are not supposed to make major changes to your contributions without your permission. Any pages you write are of course your own intellectual property, though IRHB retains the right to preserve and make available to the public any submitted content. You thus cannot remove pages you have written, but you can publish their content in other media. Please contact the site's administrator if you would like to contribute to IRHB. See next for contact information.</div>
 
== Contact ==
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Please contact Henrik Thiil Nielsen with comments and corrections with regard to both content and technical aspects of the site (bug reports, layout and usability problems — we are aware that a few pages are not yet mobile-friendly). Let us know if you wish to contribute to IRHB. You can reach us via the [[Special:Contact|Contact]] page. </div>
 
== Section by section ==
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IRHB has grown into quite a large site. If you are a new visitor, the information for each section listed in the boxes below can help you find information on the areas you are most interested in. If you are a regular, it will help you stay up-to-date with changes and additions to the site. It will also give you a good idea which sections of the site are more mature and which are still at an early stage of development. Perhaps you can help create more content for the latter?</div>
 
 
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=== Allusions ===
<p>Allusions in works of prose fiction, poetry, non-specialist local history and topography, letters, itineraries, bio&shy;gra&shy;phies etc.</p>
<p>This section currently includes a total of {{#ask:[[Category:Allusions-topics]]|format=count}} pages, including two landing pages for each century, one with links, the other with allusion texts.</p>
<p>Section landing-page: [[Allusions]].</p>
<p class="newsbox after-list-large">Allusions per century</p>
* {{#vardefineecho:period|1301-1400}} · [[Allusions {{#var:period}} (links)|links]] · [[Allusions {{#var:period}} (texts)|texts]] ({{#ask:[[Category:Allusions {{#var:period}}]]|format=count}} pages)
* {{#vardefineecho:period|1401-1500}} · [[Allusions {{#var:period}} (links)|links]] · [[Allusions {{#var:period}} (texts)|texts]] ({{#ask:[[Category:Allusions {{#var:period}}]]|format=count}} pages)
* {{#vardefineecho:period|1501-1600}} · [[Allusions {{#var:period}} (links)|links]] · [[Allusions {{#var:period}} (texts)|texts]] ({{#ask:[[Category:Allusions {{#var:period}}]]|format=count}} pages)
* {{#vardefineecho:period|1601-1700}} · [[Allusions {{#var:period}} (links)|links]] · [[Allusions {{#var:period}} (texts)|texts]] ({{#ask:[[Category:Allusions {{#var:period}}]]|format=count}} pages)
* {{#vardefineecho:period|1701-1800}} · [[Allusions {{#var:period}} (links)|links]] · [[Allusions {{#var:period}} (texts)|texts]] ({{#ask:[[Category:Allusions {{#var:period}}]]|format=count}} pages)
* {{#vardefineecho:period|1801-1900}} · [[Allusions {{#var:period}} (links)|links]] · [[Allusions {{#var:period}} (texts)|texts]] ({{#ask:[[Category:Allusions {{#var:period}}]]|format=count}} pages)
* {{#vardefineecho:period|1901-2000}} · [[Allusions {{#var:period}} (links)|links]] · [[Allusions {{#var:period}} (texts)|texts]] ({{#ask:[[Category:Allusions {{#var:period}}]]|format=count}} pages).
* {{#vardefineecho:period|2001-2100}} · [[Allusions {{#var:period}} (links)|links]] · [[Allusions {{#var:period}} (texts)|texts]] ({{#ask:[[Category:Allusions {{#var:period}}]]|format=count}} pages).
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* [[1309 - Anonymous - Annales Londonienses]]
* [[1324 - Louis, count of Flanders - Letter to Edward II or III]]
* [[1473 - Paston, John - To John Paston]]
* [[1667 - Cosin, John - Household Book]]
* [[1883 - Bayzand, William - Coaching in and out of Oxford]].
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=== Analogues ===
<p>Other outlaw traditions, sources and analogues of Robin Hood ballads</p>
<p>This section currently includes a total of {{#ask:[[Category:Analogues-topics]]|format=count}} pages.</p>
<p>Section landing-page: [[Analogues]].</p>
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* [[Analogues#british|British analogues]] ({{#ask:[[Category:British analogues]]|format=count}} pages)
* [[Analogues#european|European analogues]] ({{#ask:[[Category:European analogues]]|format=count}} pages)
* [[Analogues#northamerican|North American analogues]] ({{#ask:[[Category:North American analogues]]|format=count}} pages)
* [[Analogues#asian|Asian analogues]]
* [[Analogues#international|International analogues]] ({{#ask:[[Category:International analogues]]|format=count}} pages)
* [[King and subject tales]] ({{#ask:[[Category:King and subject tales items]]|format=count}} pages)
* [[Analogues (anthologies)]]
* [[Studies and criticism (analogues)]]
* [[Allusions to analogues]].
<p class="newsbox after-list-large">IRHB favourites</p>
* [[Fulk Fitz-Warin]]
* [[King and subject tales]]
* [[Marsk Stig]]
* [[Miracles]]
* [[Allusions to analogues]].
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=== Artifacts ===
<p>Mass-produced artifacts such as postcards and cigarette cards, unique artifacts such as statues</p>
<p>This section currently includes a total of {{#ask:[[Category:Artifacts-topics]]|format=count}} pages.</p>
<p>Section landing-page: [[Artifacts]].</p>
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* [[Theatrical postcards]] ({{#ask:[[Category:Postcards theatrical]]|format=count}} page)
* [[Topographical postcards]] (list of links to place-names section)
* [[Artifacts#cigarettecards|Cigarette cards]] ({{#ask:[[Category:Cigarette cards]]| format=count}} page)
* [[Artifacts#meansofpayment|Means of payment]] ({{#ask:[[Category:Means of payment]]|format=count}} pages).
* [[Artifacts#studiesandcriticism|Studies and criticism]].
<p class="newsbox after-list-large">IRHB favourites</p>
* [[Token of Roger Dickinson of Robin Hood's Bay]]
* [[Pattreiouex - Sights of Britain]]
* [[Topographical postcards]].
<p class="newsbox after-list-large">Recently added</p>
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=== Ballads ===
<p>The Robin Hood ballads &ndash; lists of editions, studies and criticism, allusions to specific ballads</p>
<p>This section currently includes a total of {{#ask:[[Category:Ballads-topics]]|format=count}} pages.</p>
<p>Section landing-page: [[Ballads]].</p>
<p class="newsbox">Pages</p>
* [[Ballads]] ({{#ask:[[Category:Specific ballads]]|format=count}} pages)
* [[Garlands of Robin Hood]]
* [[Scholarly ballad collections]]
* [[Ballad studies and criticism]]
* [[Allusions to ballads]].
<p class="newsbox after-list-large">IRHB favourites</p>
* [[Gest of Robyn Hode]]
* [[Robin Hood and the Bishop of Hereford]]
* [[Robin Hood and the Monk]].
<p class="newsbox after-list-large">Recently updated</p>
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=== Bibliography ===
<p>Bibliographies, from bibliographical monographs to short lists in books and articles. Analytical bibliography also covered</p>
<p>This section currently includes {{#ask:[[Category:Bibliography-topics]]|format=count}} page.</p>
<p>Section landing-page: [[Bibliography]].</p>
</div>
 
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=== Chronicles ===
<p>Chronicle entries on Robin Hood ''c.'' 1420&ndash;''c.'' 1600</p>
<p>This section currently includes {{#ask:[[Category:Chronicles-topics]]|format=count}} pages.</p>
<p>Section landing-page: [[Chronicles]].</p>
<p class="newsbox">Pages</p>
* [[Chronicles]] ({{#ask:[[Category:Chronicles]]|format=count}} pages)
* [[Anthologies of chronicle entries]]
* [[Chronicles - studies and criticism]].
<p class="newsbox after-list-large">IRHB favourites</p>
* [[1420 - Wyntoun, Andrew of - Original Chronicle (1)]]
* [[1577 - Holinshed, Raphael - Chronicles (5)]].
<p class="newsbox after-list-large">Recently added</p>
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=== Comics ===
<p>Comic books, magazines, and strips; cartoons</p>
<p>This section currently includes {{#ask:[[Category:Comics-topics]]|format=count}} pages.</p>
<p>Section landing-page: [[Comics]].</p>
<p class="newsbox">Pages</p>
* [[Comics in C]] ({{#ask:[[Category:Comics in C]]|format=count}} pages)
* [[Comics - studies and criticism]]
* [[Comics bibliography]].
<p class="newsbox after-list-large">IRHB favourites</p>
* [[Classic Comics - Ivanhoe]]
* [[Classic Comics - Robin Hood]].
<p class="newsbox after-list-large">Recently added</p>
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=== Criticism ===
<p>Literary criticism, literary history, folklore studies, cultural studies, semiotics etc.</p>
<p>This section currently includes {{#ask:[[Category:Criticism-topics]]|format=count}} page.</p>
<p>Section landing-page: [[Criticism]].</p>
</div>
 
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=== Drama ===
<p>Drama, medieval to modern, including operas, operettas, musicals, pantomimes etc.</p>
<p>This section currently includes {{#ask:[[Category:Drama-topics]]|format=count}} pages.</p>
<p>Section landing-page: [[Drama]].</p>
<p class="newsbox">Pages</p>
* [[Drama]] ({{#ask:[[Category:Dramas-specific]]|format=count}} pages)
* [[Drama anthologies]]
* [[Drama studies and criticism]]
* [[Drama bibliography]].
<p class="newsbox after-list-large">IRHB favourites</p>
* [[Greene, Robert - George a Greene]]
* [[Unknown - Robin Hood Panto]].
<p class="newsbox after-list-large">Recently added</p>
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=== Early Prose ===
<p>Early prose works, between chronicle and children's book</p>
<p>This section currently includes {{#ask:[[Category:Early prose-topics]]|format=count}} page.</p>
<p>Section landing-page: [[Early prose]].</p>
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=== Festivals ===
<p>May games, summer games, Whitsun ales, church ales etc.</p>
<p>This section currently includes {{#ask:[[Category:Festivals-topics]]|format=count}} pages.</p>
<p>Section landing-page: [[Festivals]] (on festivals in England).</p>
<p class="newsbox">Pages</p>
* [[Festivals#england|Festivals]] ({{#ask:[[Category:English counties with festivals]]|format=count}} county landing-pages)
* [[Festivals in Scotland]]  ({{#ask:[[Category:Scottish counties with festivals]]|format=count}} county landing-pages)
* [[Allusions to festivals]]
* [[Festivals in North America]]  (1 state landing page)
<p class="newsbox after-list-large">IRHB favourites</p>
* [[Devon festivals]]
* [[Ashburton festivals]]
* [[Shooter's Hill festivals]]
* [[Stepney festivals]]
* [[Richmond festivals]]
* [[Banbury festivals]]
* [[Calne festivals]]
<p class="newsbox after-list-large">Recently added</p>
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=== Films ===
<p>Feature films, TV series, cartoons, films with Robin Hood titles etc.</p>
<p>This section currently includes {{#ask:[[Category:Films-topics]]|format=count}} pages.</p>
<p>Section landing-page: [[Films]].</p>
<p class="newsbox">Pages</p>
* [[Film chronology]] ({{#ask:[[Category:Specific films]]|format=count}} pages). The same materials sub-divided into:
** [[Feature films]] ({{#ask:[[Category:Feature films]]|format=count}} page)
** [[Television series]] ({{#ask:[[Category:Television series]]|format=count}} page)
** [[Films with Robin Hood-related titles]] ({{#ask:[[Category:Films with Robin Hood-related titles]]|format=count}} pages)
* [[Filmographies]]
* [[Film studies and criticism]].
<p class="newsbox after-list-large">IRHB favourites</p>
* [[1975 - Legend of Robin Hood]].
<p class="newsbox after-list-large">Recently added</p>
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=== Historiography ===
<p>Records relating to historical persons, criminal or law-abiding, named Robin Hood, Little John etc. Records referring to places named after Robin Hood. Origin and audience of early tales, archery, crime etc.</p>
<p>This section currently includes {{#ask:[[Category:Historiography-topics]]|format=count}} pages, including two landing pages for each century, one with links, the other with allusion texts, as well as landing pages for various groupings of records.</p>
<p>Section landing-page: [[Historiography]].</p>
<p class="newsbox">Topic pages</p>
* [[Origins and history]]
* [[Historical topics]].</p>
 
<p class="newsbox after-list-large">Records per century</p>
* {{#vardefineecho:period|1201-1300}} · [[Records {{#var:period}} (links)|links]] · [[Records {{#var:period}} (texts)|texts]] ({{#ask:[[Category:Records {{#var:period}}]]|format=count}} pages)
* {{#vardefineecho:period|1301-1400}} · [[Records {{#var:period}} (links)|links]] · [[Records {{#var:period}} (texts)|texts]] ({{#ask:[[Category:Records {{#var:period}}]]|format=count}} pages)
* {{#vardefineecho:period|1401-1500}} · [[Records {{#var:period}} (links)|links]] · [[Records {{#var:period}} (texts)|texts]] ({{#ask:[[Category:Records {{#var:period}}]]|format=count}} pages)
* {{#vardefineecho:period|1501-1600}} · [[Records {{#var:period}} (links)|links]] · [[Records {{#var:period}} (texts)|texts]] ({{#ask:[[Category:Records {{#var:period}}]]|format=count}} pages)
* {{#vardefineecho:period|1601-1700}} · [[Records {{#var:period}} (links)|links]] · [[Records {{#var:period}} (texts)|texts]] ({{#ask:[[Category:Records {{#var:period}}]]|format=count}} pages)
* {{#vardefineecho:period|1701-1800}} · [[Records {{#var:period}} (links)|links]] · [[Records {{#var:period}} (texts)|texts]] ({{#ask:[[Category:Records {{#var:period}}]]|format=count}} pages)
* {{#vardefineecho:period|1801-1900}} · [[Records {{#var:period}} (links)|links]] · [[Records {{#var:period}} (texts)|texts]] ({{#ask:[[Category:Records {{#var:period}}]]|format=count}} pages)
* {{#vardefineecho:period|1901-2000}} · [[Records {{#var:period}} (links)|links]] · [[Records {{#var:period}} (texts)|texts]] ({{#ask:[[Category:Records {{#var:period}}]]|format=count}} pages).</p>
 
<p class="newsbox after-list-large">General record groupings and topics</p>
* Criminals named Little John · [[Criminals named Little John (links)|links]] · [[Criminals named Little John (record texts)|texts]] Records ({{#ask:[[Category:Records (criminal Little Johns)]]|format=count}} pages)
* Criminals named Robin Hood · [[Criminals named Robin Hood (links)|links]] · [[Criminals named Robin Hood (record texts)|texts]] ({{#ask:[[Category:Records (criminal Robin Hoods)]]|format=count}} pages)
* Criminals surnamed Robinhood · [[Criminals surnamed Robinhood (links)|links]] · [[Criminals surnamed Robinhood (record texts)|texts]] ({{#ask:[[Category:Records (criminal Robinhoods)]]|format=count}} pages)
* Persons named Little John · [[Persons named Little John (links)|links]] · [[Persons named Little John (record texts)|texts]] ({{#ask:[[Category:Records (historical Little Johns)]]|format=count}} pages)
* Persons named Much the Miller's Son · [[Persons named Much the Miller's Son (links)|links]] · [[Persons named Much the Miller's Son (record texts)|texts]] ({{#ask:[[Category:Records (historical Much the Millers Sons)]]|format=count}} pages)
* Persons named Richard at the Lee · [[Persons named Richard at the Lee (links)|links]] · [[Persons named Richard at the Lee (record texts)|texts]] ({{#ask:[[Category:Records (historical Richard at the Lees)]]|format=count}} pages)
* Persons named Robert Loxley · [[Persons named Robert Loxley (links)|links]] · [[Persons named Robert Loxley (record texts)|texts]] ({{#ask:[[Category:Records (historical Robert Loxleys)]]|format=count}} pages)
* Persons named Robin Hood · [[Persons named Robin Hood (links)|links]] · [[Persons named Robin Hood (record texts)|texts]] ({{#ask:[[Category:Records (historical Robin Hoods)]]|format=count}} pages)
* Persons named Roger of Doncaster · [[Persons named Roger of Doncaster (links)|links]] · [[Persons named Roger of Doncaster (record texts)|texts]] ({{#ask:[[Category:Records (historical Roger of Doncasters)]]|format=count}} pages)
* Persons named William Scathlock · [[Persons named William Scathlock (links)|links]] · [[Persons named William Scathlock (record texts)|texts]] ({{#ask:[[Category:Records (historical William Scathlocks)]]|format=count}} pages)
* Persons surnamed Littlejohn · [[Persons surnamed Littlejohn (links)|links]] · [[Persons surnamed Littlejohn (record texts)|texts]] ({{#ask:[[Category:Records (Littlejohn surname)]]|format=count}} pages)
* Persons surnamed Robinhood · [[Persons surnamed Robinhood (links)|links]] · [[Persons surnamed Robinhood (record texts)|texts]] ({{#ask:[[Category:Records (Robinhood surname)]]|format=count}} pages)
* [[Sheriffs of Nottingham]]
* [[Prioresses of Kirklees]].</p>
 
<p class="newsbox after-list-large">Special record groupings and topics</p>
* John Petit of Cornwall · [[John Petit of Cornwall (links)|links]] · [[John Petit of Cornwall (record texts)|texts]] ({{#ask:[[Category:Records (John Petit of Cornwall)]]|format=count}} pages)
* Little John the mariner · [[Little John the mariner (links)|links]] · [[Little John the mariner (record texts)|texts]] ({{#ask:[[Category:Records (Mariner John Little)]]|format=count}} pages)
* Proceedings of the Old Bailey · [[Proceedings of the Old Bailey (links)|links]] · [[Proceedings of the Old Bailey (record texts)|texts]] ({{#ask:[[Category:Proceedings of the Old Bailey]]|format=count}} pages)
* Robert le Hod of West Tisted · [[Robert le Hod of West Tisted (links)|links]] · [[Robert le Hod of West Tisted (record texts)|texts]] ({{#ask:[[Category:Robert le Hod of West Tisted]]|format=count}} pages)
* Robhoods of Walsham le Willows · [[Robhoods of Walsham le Willows (links)|links]] · [[Robhoods of Walsham le Willows (record texts)|texts]] ({{#ask:[[Category:Robhoods of Walsham le Willows]]|format=count}} pages)
* Robin Hoods in Wakefield Manor Court Rolls · [[Robin Hoods in Wakefield Manor Court Rolls (links)|links]] · [[Robin Hoods in Wakefield Manor Court Rolls (record texts)|texts]] ({{#ask:[[Category:Robin Hoods in Wakefield Manor Court Rolls]]|format=count}} pages).
* Roger de Doncaster in Sandal · [[Roger de Doncaster in Sandal (links)|links]] · [[Roger de Doncaster in Sandal (record texts)|texts]] ({{#ask:[[Category:Roger de Doncaster in Sandal]]|format=count}} pages).</p>
 
<p class="newsbox after-list-large">IRHB favourites</p>
* [[Little John the mariner (record texts)]]
* [[Robert le Hod of West Tisted (record texts)]]
* [[Robhoods of Walsham le Willows (record texts)]]
* [[Robin Hoods in Wakefield Manor Court Rolls (record texts)]]
* [[1422 - Stone of Robert Hode]].</p>
 
<p class="newsbox after-list-large">Recently added</p>
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=== Juvenile ===
<p>Children's books, picture books, short stories, poetry etc.</p>
<p>This section currently includes {{#ask:[[Category:Juvenile-topics]]|format=count}} pages, including landing pages for each letter of the alphabet (currently only {{#ask:[[Category:Children's books]]|format=count}}).</p>
<p>Section landing-page: [[Juvenile]].</p>
<p class="newsbox">Topic pages</p>
* [[Bibliography of children's literature]]
* [[Children's books studies]]
* [[Proto-juvenile]].
 
<p class="newsbox after-list-large">IRHB favourites</p>
* [[Marshall, Henrietta Elizabeth - Stories of Robin Hood]]
* [[Pyle, Howard - Merry Adventures of Robin Hood]].
 
<p class="newsbox after-list-large">Recently added</p>
{{#ask:[[Category:Juvenile-topics]]|format=ul|columns=1|limit=10|sort=Creation date|order=descending|searchlabel=}}
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=== Linguistics ===
<p>List of works and paper discussing linguistic aspects of early Robin Hood tales. IRHB notes on linguistic topics.</p>
<p>This section currently includes {{#ask:[[Category:Linguistics-topics]]|format=count}} pages.</p>
<p>Section landing-page: [[Linguistics]], includes list of IRHB notes on linguistic topics ({{#ask:[[Category:Linguistics-notes]]|format=count}} pages).</p>
<p class="newsbox after-list-large">IRHB favourites</p>
* [[From Beornsdale to Barnsdale]]
* [[Wood for Hood]]
<p class="newsbox after-list-large">Recently added</p>
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=== Music ===
<p>Music &ndash; operetta to post-punk.</p>
<p>Section landing-page: [[Music]] (1 sub-page)</p>
 
<p class="newsbox">Pages</p>
* [[Specific works of music]] ({{#ask:[[Category:Specific works of music]]|format=count}} page).
 
<p class="newsbox after-list-large">Recently added</p>
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=== Mythology ===
<p>Monographs and articles arguing that the Robin Hood figure originated in fertility rites etc. Monographs and articles discussing and criticizing such hypotheses.</p>
<p>This section currently includes {{#ask:[[Category:Mythology-topics]]|format=count}} page.</p>
<p>Section landing-page: [[Mythology]].</p>
</div>
 
<div class="newsbox">
 
=== Originators ===
<p>Full bibliographical data of printed (and some MS) sources cited on IRHB, arranged alphabetically under originators' sur&shy;names. Item entries include short title forms for citation on other pages.</p>
<p>This section currently includes {{#ask:[[Category:Originators-topics]]|format=count}} pages.</p>
<p>Section landing-page: [[Originators]], with a landing page for each letter of the alphabet, including letters in non-English alphabets as well as Anonymous ({{#ask:[[Category:Originators]]|format=count}} pages).</p>
<p class="newsbox after-list-large">Recently added</p>
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=== Place-Names ===
<p>Places named after Robin Hood and subsidiary characters of the tradition; localities mentioned in Robin Hood literature, mainly before 1800.</p>
<p>This section currently includes {{#ask:[[Category:Place-names]]|format=count}} pages.</p>
<p>Section landing-page: [[Place-names]].</p>
<p class="newsbox">Topic and sub-section landing-pages</p>
* [[Place-names#counties|English counties]]: currently {{#ask: [[Category:English counties with place-names]]|format=count}} landing-pages
* [[Place-names#placenameclusters|Clusters of place-names in England]]: currently {{#ask: [[Category:English place-name clusters]]|format=count}} landing-pages
* [[Place-names#specialgroupings|Special groupings]]: currently {{#ask: [[Category:Place-names]] AND [[Category:Special groupings]]|format=count}} pages or landing-pages
* [[British place-names]] (outside England)
* [[European place-names]]
* [[North American place-names]]
* [[Asian place-names]]
* [[Gazetteers (place-names)]]
* [[Sources discussing place-names]].
<p class="newsbox after-list-large">IRHB favourites</p>
* [[Place-name choropleths]]
* [[Places named Robin Hood's Butts]]
* [[Barnsdale (Doncaster)]]
* [[Barnsdale (Exton)]]
* [[Nottinghamshire place-names]]
* [[Place-names]]
* [[Robin Hood Ball (Netheravon)]]
* [[Robin Hood's Bay]]
* [[Robin Hood's Arrows (Chetham's Library)]]
* [[Robin Hood's Stone (Whitby Laithes)]]
* [[Robin Hood's Well (Barnsdale)]]
* [[Robin Hood's Well (Nottingham)]]
* [[Sayles (Barnsdale)]]
* [[Sayles Plantation (Barnsdale)]]
* [[Yorkshire place-names]].
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=== Plant Names ===
<p>Folk names of plants; trade names of cultivated varieties.</p>
<p>This section currently includes {{#ask:[[Category:Plant names-topics]]|format=count}} pages.</p>
<p>Section landing-page: [[Plant names]].</p>
<p class="newsbox after-list-large">IRHB favourites</p>
* [[Robin Hood - Geranium robertianum]]
* [[Robin Hood - Silene dioica]].
<p class="newsbox after-list-large">Recently added</p>
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=== Acknowledgements ===
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<p>I wish to thank the following for help, information, photos, unpublished papers, encouragement, stimulating discussions, a Robin Hood teapot and hat etc.: Mogens Andersen, B.A.; Karl Bencke; Jill Boyes; Professor Graham D. Caie; Mogens Christensen, M.A.; Malte Christian Thiil Ehlers, M.A.; Andrew Dawson; Professor S&oslash;ren Balling Engelsen; Robert Fortunaso; Karen Glente, M.A.; Peter Harrod; Richard Hawlor; David Hepworth, Ph.D.; [http://www.historiccountiestrust.co.uk/ The Historic Counties Trust] for permission to quote their county descriptions ''in toto''; S&oslash;ren Bartholin Holm, M.A.; Sir James Holt (who is no longer with us); Annette Jung, M.A.; Gerner Dan Lauridsen, M.A.; Robert Lynley; S&oslash;s Museth; Markus Kai Nielsen for the IRHB logo; Vagn Thiil Nielsen (who is no longer with us) for his support and many hours of photocopying; [https://nottinghamhiddenhistoryteam.wordpress.com/ Nottingham Hidden History Team] through their liaison officer Mr Jimmy Notts for permission to use illustrations from their blog; Thomas Ohlgren, professor emeritus; Jan Eigil Pedersen; Philip Sampson; Ian Short, professor emeritus; Hans-Christian Simonsen, M.A.; Vibeke Sommer, M.A.; Geoff Spencer; Mimi Stawski, and the members of 'robinh&shy;hoodforum4'.</p>
=== Poetry ===
<p>Poetry, excluding poetry written for children.</p>
<p>This section currently includes {{#ask:[[Category:Poetry-topics]]|format=count}} pages.</p>
<p>Section landing-page: [[Poetry]].</p>
<p class="newsbox after-list-large">IRHB favourites</p>
* [[1828 - Crossley, Thomas - Written at Grave of Robin Hood|Crossley, Thomas &ndash; Written at Grave of Robin Hood]]
* [[1832 - Scott, Walter - Inscription for Robin Hood's Well|Scott, Walter &ndash; Inscription for Robin Hood's Well]].
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=== Participants wanted ===
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<p>Unlike many other wikis, this one cannot be edited or added to by casual visitors who also cannot sign up via the site. The reason for this restrictive policy is that I wish to avoid vandalism and confine active membership to people with knowledge of the Robin Hood tradition. Contributors are more than welcome. There are really only two requirements: interest in the Robin Hood tradition and an objective mindset. The learning curve will not be steep if you are used to editing Wikipedia or other [https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:What_is_MediaWiki%3F Mediawiki] sites and know basic html. If you don't, I will put a little list of how-to's together. If you do not wish to spend time and energy learning mark-up, you are very welcome to write your contributions as plain text and let me handle the technical stuff. Please contact me if you would like to contribute to IRHB. See next for contact information.</p>
=== Proverbs ===
<p>Proverbs relating to Robin Hood.</p>
<p>This section currently includes {{#ask:[[Category:Proverbs-topics]]|format=count}} pages.</p>
<p>Section landing-page: [[Proverbs]].</p>
<p class="newsbox">List pages</p>
* [[Proverb collections and lists]]
* [[Proverb studies and criticism]].
<p class="newsbox after-list-large">IRHB favourites</p>
* [[Many speak of Robin Hood that never shot in his bow]]
* [[Robin Hood]]
* [[Robin Hood in Barnsdale stood]]
* [[Robin Hood's pennyworths]].
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=== Contact ===
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<p>Do contact me with comments, corrections etc. Do let me know if you wish to contribute to IRHB. You can reach me via the [[irhb:Contact|Contact]] page.</p>
<p>&mdash; Henrik Thiil Nielsen (MA, AP cand. computer science),<br/>
Copenhagen, Denmark</p>
=== Notes ===
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=== Software ===
<p>Software, excluding websites and web-based games.</p>
<p>This section currently includes {{#ask:[[Category:Software-topics]]|format=count}} pages.</p>
<p>Section landing-page: [[Software]].</p>
<p class="newsbox">List pages</p>
* [[PC games]] ({{#ask:[[Category:PC games]]|format=count}} sub-page)
* [[Software criticism]].
<p class="newsbox after-list-large">IRHB favourites</p>
* [[Conquests of the Longbow (PC game)]].
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=== Websites ===
<p>Websites dealing exclusively with Robin Hood or having substantial Robin Hood-related content.</p>
<p>Section landing-page: [[Websites]].</p>
<p>This section currently includes {{#ask:[[Category:Websites-topics]]|format=count}} page.</p>
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Short introduction

We hope that this wiki will in due course come to live up to its somewhat grand name. It is called 'International' because in addition to the vast amount of material that exists in English, we intend to add information about materials in other languages such as translations of ballads, secondary literature, children's fiction, literature on foreign analogues of Robin Hood etc. Arguably 'Bibliography' is a misnomer as the site already includes a wealth of all sorts of information one would not nor­mally expect to find in a biblio­gra­phy, but the biblio­gra­phical aspect is in all cases taken quite seriously, and there is already a wiki named the Robin Hood Wiki, so another name had to be found for the site.

Latest news

NEW subsite: IRHB Editions, currently with a single edition: A Gest of Robyn Hode
  • 2024-03-12: All tithe awards for the following English counties have now been searched for Robin Hood-related place names: Bed­ford­shire, Berk­shire, Cambridge­shire, Che­shire, Cum­ber­land, Der­by­shire, Hunting­don­shire, Lan­ca­shire, Lin­coln­shire, Middle­sex, Notting­ham­shire, Rut­land, West­morl­and, and York­shire. Some fieldnames have yet to be entered, along with some 300 place names from other sources.
  • 2022-06-16: the link to the Contact page in the Contact section below has not worked for a couple of weeks. It has now been fixed.
  • 2021-01-10: two weeks of behind-the-scenes updates to IRHB have been completed. We apologize for any convenience this has caused in the form of instability, lack of responsiveness, and brief offline periods.
  • 2020-12-30: IRHB's contact form has not been working for a couple of weeks. This has now been fixed
  • 2020-11-04: The 900th English Robin Hood-related place-name was entered
  • 2020-06-09: a warm welcome to Jon Snurka. Jon will help add and update pages at IRHB. For now at least, his chief focus will be on Children's books and Films
  • 2018-04-27: a systematic search for Robin Hood-related place-names in the thousands of 6" O.S. maps of England online at the map subsite of the National Library of Scotland was completed. This was begun about two years earlier. About one hundred of the 'new' place-names found have yet to be added to the site

Work in progress

The menu items in the top right area of the site – or just below the site logo when the page is viewed on a small device – provide a rough guide to the topics and genres covered on IRHB. Given the vastness of the Robin Hood tradition — and this is no exaggeration — the site will always remain a work in progress. This is important to keep in mind when reading specific entries, for although we sometimes gather materials from several sources and write a more or less well-rounded in-depth page on some topic, more often than not we work our way through the sources and add the various nuggets they contain where we believe they belong in the structure we have created. So any entry may at a given time lack important pieces of information because nobody has got round to adding them yet. Over time this problem should become less pronounced. At present there is at least some information on each topic or area of interest. As time permits, we gradually add information under all headings, but as there is such a wealth of data we have felt it necessary to focus, for the time being, on a few areas in order to retain the feeling – illusion? – that we are making measurable progress. Current high priority areas are place-names, allusions (especially from the 16th and 17th centuries), historical records, and children's books.

Acknowledgements

Henrik Thiil Nielsen, IRHB's webmaster and chief contributor, wishes to thank the following for help, information, photos, unpublished papers, encouragement, stimulating discussions, a Robin Hood teapot, a Robin Hood hat, etc.: Stefan Ahn; Mogens Andreasen, BA; Karl Bencke; Tom Bint, webmaster of the now defunct 'Deanweb', for permission to use photo; Jill Boyes and her aunt; Andy Burnham, founder of The Megalithic Portal, for permission to use materials; Professor Graham D. Caie; Chris; Mogens Christensen, MA; Tim Clough, Honorary Editor, Rutland Local History & Record Society; Robert Crewdson; Dr David Crook; Andrew Dawson; Paul Dunnill; Malte Christian Thiil Ehlers, MA; Professor Søren Balling Engelsen; Arild Frøyseth†; Karen Glente, MA; Inge Guldal, MPsych; Linda Hardy, Marketing & Events Officer at The Sherwood Forest Trust; Peter Harrod; Richard Hawlor; David Hepworth, PhD; The Historic Counties Trust for permission to quote their county descriptions in toto; Anders Hjorth-Jørgensen, librarian and comics expert; Søren Bartholin Holm, MA; Professor Sir James Holt†; Andi Ingleby, manager of collection metadata production, British Library; Julie Ann Johnson, BA, B Ed; Annette Jung, MA; David Kitching for permission to use photo; Gerner Dan Lauridsen, MA; Aditnow forum user 'Lipsi' (Kelvin) for permission to use photos; Aditnow forum administrator Simon Lowe; Robert Lynley who does historical sleuthing better and more doggedly than any other Robin Hood researcher; Tina Milaa, MA; Bob Mullen; Søs Museth for books and comic books and things; Markus Kai Nielsen (no relation) for the IRHB logo; Tove Nielsen† for many talks and discussions; Vagn Thiil Nielsen† for his support, his many hours of photocopying and teaching me the uses of encyclopedias and dictionaries; Ingeborg Nixon†, PhD; Nottingham Hidden History Team through their liaison officer Mr Jimmy Notts for permission to use illustrations from their blog; Thomas Ohlgren, professor emeritus; 'Onewish1' (Allison), user of the National Gardening Association website; Ross Parish, author of books on English holy wells and a blog on the same topic, for photos and information; Jan Eigil Pedersen; Tim Prevett, MA, producer, consultant and lecturer on slow TV, for use of photos; Bente Prydts; Rich for photos and information; David Rogers; Eric E. Rush; Jan Ole Schelde†; Ian Short, professor emeritus; Hans-Christian Simonsen, MA; Paul Skelton for permission to use relevant materials from Kent's Public House Archive Site; surveyor Nicholas Smith, his wife, and his mother Kate Smith for photo and information; Jon Snurka for becoming a co-editor and contributor at IRHB; Vibeke Sommer, MA; Geoff Spencer; Frank Leo Stavik; Mimi Stawski; Anne T for permission to use photos and in­for­mation; Thorpe Thewles Local History Group; Stuart Timms; Colin Wooldridge for use of photo.

Participants wanted

Unlike many other wikis, this one cannot be edited or added to by casual visitors who also cannot sign up via the site. The reason for this restrictive policy is that we wish to avoid vandalism and confine active membership to people with knowledge of the Robin Hood tradition. Contributors are more than welcome. There is really only one requirement: a serious interest in anything Hood. The learning curve is not steep if you are used to editing Wikipedia or other Mediawiki sites. If you do not wish to spend time and energy learning Wikipedia-style annotations, you are very welcome to write your contributions as plain text and let us handle the formatting. Your name will of course appear in the byline, and others are not supposed to make major changes to your contributions without your permission. Any pages you write are of course your own intellectual property, though IRHB retains the right to preserve and make available to the public any submitted content. You thus cannot remove pages you have written, but you can publish their content in other media. Please contact the site's administrator if you would like to contribute to IRHB. See next for contact information.

Contact

Please contact Henrik Thiil Nielsen with comments and corrections with regard to both content and technical aspects of the site (bug reports, layout and usability problems — we are aware that a few pages are not yet mobile-friendly). Let us know if you wish to contribute to IRHB. You can reach us via the Contact page.

Section by section

IRHB has grown into quite a large site. If you are a new visitor, the information for each section listed in the boxes below can help you find information on the areas you are most interested in. If you are a regular, it will help you stay up-to-date with changes and additions to the site. It will also give you a good idea which sections of the site are more mature and which are still at an early stage of development. Perhaps you can help create more content for the latter?


Allusions

Allusions in works of prose fiction, poetry, non-specialist local history and topography, letters, itineraries, bio­gra­phies etc.

This section currently includes a total of 344 pages, including two landing pages for each century, one with links, the other with allusion texts.

Section landing-page: Allusions.

Allusions per century

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Analogues

Other outlaw traditions, sources and analogues of Robin Hood ballads

This section currently includes a total of 30 pages.

Section landing-page: Analogues.

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Artifacts

Mass-produced artifacts such as postcards and cigarette cards, unique artifacts such as statues

This section currently includes a total of 9 pages.

Section landing-page: Artifacts.

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Ballads

The Robin Hood ballads – lists of editions, studies and criticism, allusions to specific ballads

This section currently includes a total of 47 pages.

Section landing-page: Ballads.

Pages

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Bibliography

Bibliographies, from bibliographical monographs to short lists in books and articles. Analytical bibliography also covered

This section currently includes 1 page.

Section landing-page: Bibliography.

Chronicles

Chronicle entries on Robin Hood c. 1420–c. 1600

This section currently includes 17 pages.

Section landing-page: Chronicles.

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Comics

Comic books, magazines, and strips; cartoons

This section currently includes 8 pages.

Section landing-page: Comics.

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Criticism

Literary criticism, literary history, folklore studies, cultural studies, semiotics etc.

This section currently includes 1 page.

Section landing-page: Criticism.

Drama

Drama, medieval to modern, including operas, operettas, musicals, pantomimes etc.

This section currently includes 27 pages.

Section landing-page: Drama.

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Early Prose

Early prose works, between chronicle and children's book

This section currently includes 3 page.

Section landing-page: Early prose.

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Festivals

May games, summer games, Whitsun ales, church ales etc.

This section currently includes 53 pages.

Section landing-page: Festivals (on festivals in England).

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Films

Feature films, TV series, cartoons, films with Robin Hood titles etc.

This section currently includes 11 pages.

Section landing-page: Films.

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Historiography

Records relating to historical persons, criminal or law-abiding, named Robin Hood, Little John etc. Records referring to places named after Robin Hood. Origin and audience of early tales, archery, crime etc.

This section currently includes 746 pages, including two landing pages for each century, one with links, the other with allusion texts, as well as landing pages for various groupings of records.

Section landing-page: Historiography.

Topic pages

Records per century

General record groupings and topics

Special record groupings and topics

  • John Petit of Cornwall · links · texts (11 pages)
  • Little John the mariner · links · texts (11 pages)
  • Proceedings of the Old Bailey · links · texts (192 pages)
  • Robert le Hod of West Tisted · links · texts (11 pages)
  • Robhoods of Walsham le Willows · links · texts (104 pages)
  • Robin Hoods in Wakefield Manor Court Rolls · links · texts (103 pages).
  • Roger de Doncaster in Sandal · links · texts (11 pages).

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Juvenile

Children's books, picture books, short stories, poetry etc.

This section currently includes 84 pages, including landing pages for each letter of the alphabet (currently only 17).

Section landing-page: Juvenile.

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Linguistics

List of works and paper discussing linguistic aspects of early Robin Hood tales. IRHB notes on linguistic topics.

This section currently includes 3 pages.

Section landing-page: Linguistics, includes list of IRHB notes on linguistic topics (2 pages).

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Music

Music – operetta to post-punk.

Section landing-page: Music (1 sub-page)

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Mythology

Monographs and articles arguing that the Robin Hood figure originated in fertility rites etc. Monographs and articles discussing and criticizing such hypotheses.

This section currently includes 1 page.

Section landing-page: Mythology.

Originators

Full bibliographical data of printed (and some MS) sources cited on IRHB, arranged alphabetically under originators' sur­names. Item entries include short title forms for citation on other pages.

This section currently includes 6949 pages.

Section landing-page: Originators, with a landing page for each letter of the alphabet, including letters in non-English alphabets as well as Anonymous (29 pages).

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Place-Names

Places named after Robin Hood and subsidiary characters of the tradition; localities mentioned in Robin Hood literature, mainly before 1800.

This section currently includes 1332 pages.

Section landing-page: Place-names.

Topic and sub-section landing-pages

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Plant Names

Folk names of plants; trade names of cultivated varieties.

This section currently includes 19 pages.

Section landing-page: Plant names.

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Poetry

Poetry, excluding poetry written for children.

This section currently includes 9 pages.

Section landing-page: Poetry.

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Proverbs

Proverbs relating to Robin Hood.

This section currently includes 17 pages.

Section landing-page: Proverbs.

List pages

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Software

Software, excluding websites and web-based games.

This section currently includes 3 pages.

Section landing-page: Software.

List pages

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Websites

Websites dealing exclusively with Robin Hood or having substantial Robin Hood-related content.

Section landing-page: Websites.

This section currently includes 1 page.


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