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  • Опубликовано: 19 янв 2018
  • Tony Robinson sets out to sift the fact from the fiction on whether Robin Hood, the legendary dispossessed nobleman hiding out in Sherwood Forest did actually exist.
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    • @marialinan2451
      @marialinan2451 3 года назад +4

      Rodin hoode was a fake story 😡

    • @terryrodbourn2793
      @terryrodbourn2793 3 года назад +3

      So this Robin Hood story is exaggerations of truth just Ike the modern day!

  • @dalehood1846
    @dalehood1846 2 года назад +398

    My dad's name was Robin Hood. In the late 1960's, I remember him trying to cash a check in a store, they asked his name. He had to show his driver's license to prove it. Also, about the same time, he heard they supposedly were offering people with that name a trip to England. For something, maybe a festival/ celebration??? Not sure, too many years ago. Dad passed at the age of 92 in Jan. 2000. He was an incredible man. Miss you pop.

    • @honeybunch5765
      @honeybunch5765 2 года назад +14

      Did he he ever get to go to England?

    • @oldermusiclover
      @oldermusiclover 2 года назад +4

      some times I wonder about the sanity of parents

    • @mathonamoore123
      @mathonamoore123 2 года назад +10

      Hello, sorry for your loss. Did your father ever make it to England? His name was very distinguished, no doubt, he was a very nice man, distinguished and cultured. God bless from Ireland, 20th of April 2022.🇮🇪❤️🌹

    • @allgood6760
      @allgood6760 2 года назад +10

      Your dad had a cool name👍

    • @MrRondonmon
      @MrRondonmon Год назад +5

      @@oldermusiclover He was born in 1908, I doubt Robin Hood was as big a thing until the 1939 movie, yes it was a famous story, but the movie made it huge.

  • @paparoysworkshop
    @paparoysworkshop 3 года назад +1887

    When I grew up, Robin Hood was a fox.

  • @helenamcginty4920
    @helenamcginty4920 11 месяцев назад +22

    I love the way he pulls out "photos" of the 2 possible Robin Hoods.

  • @carlosrios3215
    @carlosrios3215 2 года назад +586

    I remember being a young lad once and being in the supermarket, I was reading an article from the National Enquirer that they’ve “discovered “ the remains of Robin Hood in Sherwood Forest. Little did I know I was so entrenched in reading the article that I walked out of the store without paying for it. I guess there’s a little bit of RH in all of us. Cheers, from 🇺🇸

    • @paulpetersen9603
      @paulpetersen9603 2 года назад +53

      Stealing from Wal-Mart to give to the poor. Lol

    • @robinhood480
      @robinhood480 2 года назад +8

      Could be.

    • @mathonamoore123
      @mathonamoore123 2 года назад +3

      @@paulpetersen9603 ha ha ha ha very witty, made me giggle lol

    • @mathonamoore123
      @mathonamoore123 2 года назад +1

      Yeah yeah, that's your excuse ha ha ha ha I believe you, thousands wouldn't! Lol just kidding but I would have returned and paid for it.

    • @paulanthony5274
      @paulanthony5274 2 года назад +12

      I've noticed Americans say Robin Hood like it's all one word "Robinhood" always wondered about that,along with lots of other pointless stuff lol

  • @brucewayneissupermanquinn601
    @brucewayneissupermanquinn601 2 года назад +69

    I'm a history teacher, but focus primarily on American History. I am just now discovering Tony Robinson's documentaries. These are wonderful!

    • @geoffsaunderson5766
      @geoffsaunderson5766 5 месяцев назад +1

      He used to play a character in a historical comedy series called black adder, if you ever want to liven the mood, playing some episodes, or even just clips that relate to a subject you are teaching courses be good, the first series was a bit hit and miss but the rest are very cutting, cleverly written and brilliantly performed, with a style of comedy that still stands up well today 👍

    • @DaveB432
      @DaveB432 5 месяцев назад +2

      He also hosted time team, played the sheriff of Nottingham, was a narrator for a BBC audio production of The Odyssey!

    • @geoffsaunderson5766
      @geoffsaunderson5766 5 месяцев назад +1

      @@DaveB432 but essentially he is baldrick 👍

    • @DaveB432
      @DaveB432 5 месяцев назад +3

      @@geoffsaunderson5766 he is a man so cunning that a cunning fox couldn't keep up!

    • @geoffsaunderson5766
      @geoffsaunderson5766 5 месяцев назад

      @@DaveB432 was that the one that when he went to pick up an award for “years most cunning” from the institute of Cunningham on rye, fooled everyone into thinking he had not turned up..by entering through the back door and wearing a mask of his own face?

  • @erepsekahs
    @erepsekahs 4 года назад +147

    I was Robin Hood....for about four years of my life, from 7 until 11. Those were the days, playing with my brother and a Maid Marion in the little forest at the bend in the road. Ahhhhh to have childhood back again.

    • @beastshawnee
      @beastshawnee 3 года назад +16

      We played Robin Hood and Batman and Robin. But I’d never to back to my childhood. The most dangerous place I have ever been was home.

    • @erepsekahs
      @erepsekahs 3 года назад +14

      @@beastshawnee I am sorry to hear that. This world is not a fair place to be....at all.

    • @fedupwithfedforever4151
      @fedupwithfedforever4151 3 года назад +4

      Uh.....I'll leave this one alone !

    • @anon5191
      @anon5191 2 года назад +1

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    • @susanmccormick6022
      @susanmccormick6022 2 года назад +6

      @@beastshawnee That's so sad honey.Hope things r better with u now.

  • @Stonewall1861
    @Stonewall1861 2 года назад +161

    I’m a big fan of Tony Robinson he makes documentaries really interesting.

    • @dalerobinson8051
      @dalerobinson8051 2 года назад +7

      And his last name (which is mine also, so I'm inclined to believe everything he says!) mean "son of Robin."

    • @joeschmoe21
      @joeschmoe21 2 года назад +6

      "And this, I must tell you, is a Baldrick!" :)

    • @shirleymental4189
      @shirleymental4189 2 года назад +3

      I prefer the long haired feller from Cornwall.

    • @terrorgaming459
      @terrorgaming459 2 года назад

      Tommy rob-

    • @Marty_Wanlass
      @Marty_Wanlass Месяц назад

      Sir Tony is truly a British treasure. I adore him and listening to his take on any story.

  • @margaretwilson3745
    @margaretwilson3745 Год назад +36

    As a child I was so in love with Richard Green's portrayal of Robin Hood. Sigh! Only a few years ago I bought a complete box set of those programmes. Ah, nostalgia. 💗

    • @tylesveque2373
      @tylesveque2373 Год назад +2

      Aka legs diamond

    • @wendyn9780
      @wendyn9780 4 месяца назад

      The showed Richard Greene’s Robin Hood here in the states as well. It played after school to my great delight 🏹

    • @neilphilip2320
      @neilphilip2320 3 месяца назад

      Yes. nostalgia.....it's not what it used to be

  • @FriedrichHecker1848
    @FriedrichHecker1848 5 лет назад +113

    "This I have to tell you is a Baldrick"...well done Baldrick.

  • @RicTic66
    @RicTic66 6 лет назад +769

    Fact or fiction, it doesn't matter. What counts is this English legend has given so much pleasure to young and old alike for nearly 700 years. From Disney to the earliest ballads from Errol Flynn to Kevin Costner I know my childhood would have been a less exciting without Robin Hood.

    • @Brembelia
      @Brembelia 5 лет назад +16

      Exactly.

    • @helentelehowski679
      @helentelehowski679 5 лет назад +13

      My childhood would also.

    • @damienholland8103
      @damienholland8103 5 лет назад +9

      It only matters if people start trying to present something as fact that is fiction. Otherwise it's fine. History and science isn't all for nothing (a free for all).

    • @bunnymad5049
      @bunnymad5049 5 лет назад +3

      Totally agree. I still like the idea of it all. lol

    • @frightbat208
      @frightbat208 5 лет назад +3

      This is true.

  • @darleystar
    @darleystar 2 года назад +12

    Romance, fairy tale, fact or fiction, history or myth? Most intriguing for me is the association with the Olde Worlde Spirit of the Forest - the Green Man. Congratulations on an excellent documentary.

  • @nani.9754
    @nani.9754 2 года назад +26

    My grandmother had a lot of classic novels. I read that novel of Robin Hood when I was 8 years old. I have never forgotten that book. It was nothing like the modern movies etc.

  • @deniseflick6556
    @deniseflick6556 4 года назад +220

    I love Tony Robinson. He is such a great presenter no matter what the subject is, he always delivers an awesome documentary. Kudos to you Tony!

    • @panzerabwerkanone
      @panzerabwerkanone 2 года назад +9

      Is it really Tony Robinson? Possibly Tony Robinhood? Hmmm?

    • @hektor6766
      @hektor6766 2 года назад +18

      @@panzerabwerkanone It's all part of a very cunning plan...

    • @sinclairjg
      @sinclairjg 2 года назад +8

      "This is, I must say, a baldric!"

    • @honeybunch5765
      @honeybunch5765 2 года назад

      @@panzerabwerkanone wonder if he is the tuneless outlaw?

    • @theweirdestsmartchannel1842
      @theweirdestsmartchannel1842 2 года назад

      100th like

  • @wrennable
    @wrennable 3 года назад +72

    The tales of Robin Hood filled my early childhood with joy, wonder, and imagination. In my pre-teen years this same love brought me into a Dungeons & Dragons game with some neighborhood kids. Before I knew it I was reading stories like The Hobbit, and Lord of the Rings, and growing an admiration for Legolas. It's been nearly three decades since I first heard the tale of Robin, and I can say without a doubt, these tales and many like it shaped the person I grew up to become.

    • @Nottz4Lyf18
      @Nottz4Lyf18 Год назад +2

      You sound like my kinda nerd, great taste

  • @albertpost9776
    @albertpost9776 2 года назад +22

    Based on the evidence presented here it appears that the Robin Hood story is based on 3 historical figures whose story were so similar seeing that they lived within a century of each other that they got intertwined over the Centuries to give us the legendary Robin Hood that we have today.

  • @tyrssen1
    @tyrssen1 2 года назад +73

    "Everyone knew the system was rotten; only an outlaw would do anything about it." There's a message there, kids. (Gee, I wish the background sound didn't overpower the foreground dialog.)

    • @Ingleseeuu
      @Ingleseeuu 2 года назад +6

      Disconnect external speakers and listen on laptop speakers. This notably improves audio. (I agree. It's a major message... demonstrates how corrupt society and Church were.)

    • @WTH1812
      @WTH1812 2 года назад +3

      Totally agree. Great video spoiled at the end by overwhelming crappy music. Why bother with narration if you don't want the viewers to hear it?

    • @rubusroo68
      @rubusroo68 2 года назад +4

      @@WTH1812 it's added to confuse youtube's copyright AI. It's not on the original broadcast version

    • @alikamal3464
      @alikamal3464 2 года назад

      All videos that baldrick does are like this on youtube.

    • @Ingleseeuu
      @Ingleseeuu 2 года назад

      @@rubusroo68 Thanks for the clarification.

  • @fifimsp
    @fifimsp 6 лет назад +521

    Of all the legends and myths, Robin Hood is the one I really want to be real.

    • @nobodyuknow6337
      @nobodyuknow6337 5 лет назад +58

      Me too. I wouldn't mind if King Arthur had something to it. I've heard that all myths and legends have at least a grain of truth to them.

    • @sarahkilo3606
      @sarahkilo3606 4 года назад +19

      There is some truth but the story has been added to and taken from during the centuries

    • @rayray6490
      @rayray6490 4 года назад +16

      The good people who created Napster/Limewire/Torrent/etc., aren’t they in a way Robin Hoods?

    • @johnnyrico707
      @johnnyrico707 3 года назад +8

      Meh. I'll take Batman any day over Robert Hood

    • @fifimsp
      @fifimsp 3 года назад +4

      @@johnnyrico707 Nah. I'll take Superman. Oh you mean as a hero....

  • @Kendro311
    @Kendro311 4 года назад +223

    The story of R.H. Instilled the idea of looking out for the little guy and looking out for the less fortunate, in me. It became part of my design. Real or not, a great story that plants seeds of selflessness. Wonderful stuff.

    • @EsotericOccultist
      @EsotericOccultist 2 года назад +3

      It's okay to steal as long as you're doing it to someone with more money than you 👍🙄

    • @konz2891
      @konz2891 2 года назад +5

      @@EsotericOccultist There's many ways to look at it.

    • @philipweber8013
      @philipweber8013 2 года назад +4

      @Kendo75 Way to keep your eye on the ball.
      Have a good day thank you

    • @nephilimpower1351
      @nephilimpower1351 2 года назад +2

      @EsotericOccultist
      Actually it depends on what they do for their money

    • @auggied6760
      @auggied6760 2 года назад +1

      Selflessness? Not really. Robin Hood was working in the interest of himself and those he thought were important. This is not the definition of selflessness, even if it is preferable to the consolidation of wealth and power.

  • @marydonohoe8200
    @marydonohoe8200 3 года назад +29

    Wow!!! One of my favorite legends, really brought to life and possibility! Robin seems to be needed in every generation, an Everyman hero. Thanks, Tony. Beautiful work.

  • @beatleographer_10-51
    @beatleographer_10-51 2 года назад +13

    The home where Robin supposedly died is in shambles. Unbelievable! It is historical and should be preserved.

  • @alfredjohnson2647
    @alfredjohnson2647 5 лет назад +168

    23:30 '...is, I have to tell you, a Baldrick'
    Nobody but Tony Robinson could have said it that way.

    • @Schmorgus
      @Schmorgus 4 года назад +8

      I was going to comment this before scrolling down. Pure gold! :D

    • @stevenwebb3634
      @stevenwebb3634 4 года назад +3

      😂😂😂

    • @darklighter66
      @darklighter66 3 года назад +7

      @Melanistic Serval
      Maybe if he does Hannibal.
      "And so Hannibal told his men, I have a cunning plan"

    • @corneliawissing7950
      @corneliawissing7950 3 года назад +6

      Had a delightful little giggle all by myself. Thank you, Sir Tony!

  • @ashscott6068
    @ashscott6068 3 года назад +34

    It's really amazing how little Tony aged between the scene where he has dialup internet, and the scene where he's driving a car with a 2017 plate

    • @rach_laze
      @rach_laze 3 года назад +4

      its an 02 plate

  • @annk.8750
    @annk.8750 2 года назад +10

    Last of the Summer Wine character "Billy Hardcastle" claimed to be descended from Robin Hood, and proudly declared that Robin was a Yorkshireman.

  • @josephredden7280
    @josephredden7280 2 года назад +15

    If it's fact or if it's fiction doesn't much matter to me it's tale of man looking out for those who are less fortunate something we should all try do do. I can't imagine my childhood without Robin Hood what a wonderful tale true or not. It's the principle behind the story that really matters. Thank you people for uploading this and all of the wonderful Time line and Absolute history videos what a treat they are to me. Especially in the middle of covid-19

    • @AthelstanEngland
      @AthelstanEngland Месяц назад

      You realise that in this scenerio the people imposing lockdowns and vaccine mandates are the Sheriff and Prince John. Those refusing to wear masks and objey the 'law' are Robin Hood and his Merry Men.

  • @RoonJazz
    @RoonJazz 4 года назад +96

    I recall reading in the foreword to a book about some cavers in the Nottinghamshire area who found a blocked cave containing a small number of skeletons, some barrels and primitive arrows. In chalk on the wall, someone had scrawled 'Michael Tuck. I was the last.". When they returned with a camera, the roof had caved in, blocking access. Probably an urban myth, but I thought it was interesting. x

    • @bettyh3747
      @bettyh3747 3 года назад +11

      Wow... Thank you for sharing. It would be worth looking into it.

    • @Laura-Lee
      @Laura-Lee 3 года назад +7

      It IS definitely interesting. Do you remember what you were reading? LL

    • @trinidadapodaca7027
      @trinidadapodaca7027 3 года назад +6

      sounds like the cave of the red haired giants
      ones the indians chased into the cave

    • @Bear44mc
      @Bear44mc 3 года назад +26

      I remember reading that myself. As I recall (read the book in 1981) It was a list of all the Merry Men that died fighting the good fight. The final inscription was " for I am the last, Friar Tuck" Now this makes sense, as Tuck would've been the only one educated enough to write.

    • @Cate7451
      @Cate7451 3 года назад +6

      Bear44mc I read this somewhere too.

  • @TheRousler
    @TheRousler 4 года назад +15

    I love that it may all go back to Robin Goodfellow.....rooted in our deep history, our folk memory.

  • @blueberrymouse6206
    @blueberrymouse6206 2 года назад +7

    I grew up with Richard Green as Robin Hood TV series. I still watch it at times.

  • @makeupboss3568
    @makeupboss3568 5 месяцев назад +4

    I love English history , I have some of this thing called “ Anglo Saxon “ in my family history. So Robin Hood is kind of an interesting and enigmatic figure in Medieval English literature and history, and believe me I could learn about this kind of stuff all day and not get bored. I just wish there was more information on Robin Hood’s life . I hope people never stop looking for more .

  • @bremnersghost948
    @bremnersghost948 6 лет назад +76

    Wakefield born and bred, amazes me how much history my small city has seen, even the maternity hospital I was born in and my high school are on the likely battlefield from the War of the Roses

    • @ste76539
      @ste76539 6 лет назад +11

      I am from Wakefield too - I've known about Robin of Wakefield seemingly all my life (my mother was an amateur historian). I'm a bit surprised Tony didn't mention the tiny village of Robinhood just outside Outwood on the way to Leeds.

    • @rach_laze
      @rach_laze 3 года назад +7

      @@ste76539 not to forget that according to local legend sherwood forest was thought to have ended in outwood

    • @daveclark2828
      @daveclark2828 3 года назад +2

      So your from Sandal

    • @bremnersghost948
      @bremnersghost948 3 года назад +2

      @@daveclark2828 Close, Kettlethorpe

  • @deathdeathington
    @deathdeathington 3 года назад +29

    What a fantastic documentary. Tony Robinson really brings the past to life with his wonderful narration.

  • @jamesrichardson3322
    @jamesrichardson3322 2 года назад +4

    BBC Robin Hood T.V. Series was awesome, the actor who played him was the best Robin Hood ever seen.

  • @JosePerez-ld8qg
    @JosePerez-ld8qg 2 года назад +11

    I remember when my dad told me he was based on a historical figure, from that day forward, Kevin Costner and Morgan Freeman ruled

  • @calcynic
    @calcynic 4 года назад +51

    The old British series with Richard Greene was the first I remember of hearing of Robin Hood. That was 60 years ago.

    • @jackdexter9439
      @jackdexter9439 3 года назад +2

      They're repeating the 1950s serial on Talking Pictures channelm

    • @sybillestahl8646
      @sybillestahl8646 3 года назад +1

      Mike Rossi I vaguely remember that. Was it on tv on Saturday morning?

    • @margonale2780
      @margonale2780 3 года назад +2

      I remember vaguely. RichardGreene. Being a child at the time

    • @trinidadapodaca7027
      @trinidadapodaca7027 3 года назад +1

      the reruns are still on the box mike

    • @boydgrandy5769
      @boydgrandy5769 3 года назад +6

      My favorite TV show of all time. Richard Greene IS Robin Hood!

  • @tooziefaloozie
    @tooziefaloozie 4 года назад +20

    Awww Tony on his dial up 🥰🥰

  • @kanalualohafeary6129
    @kanalualohafeary6129 2 года назад +19

    Don’t forget the aliases robin used such as Diccan bend-the-bow. There may be many more robins contributing to the stories than you’ve found already. Some of the stories even implied that Robin, Diccan, Longstride, and Locksley were all aliases- that his real name was never shared to anyone after he was branded an outlaw.

  • @davidstewart9982
    @davidstewart9982 2 года назад +14

    Lovely presentation thanks Tony. Thoroughly enjoyed it. Uncertainty creates fascination! ... historical investigations are a pleasure in their own right! Cheers all!

  • @monkeywrench2800
    @monkeywrench2800 3 года назад +48

    I will say I'm impressed with the detail of this investigation, but feel sincerely disappointed that Robin Hood is not an archery skilled fox with a green hat. I will also say that I'm going to continue enjoying Mel Brooks - Men in Tights. Thank you Timeline!

  • @kpcraftster6580
    @kpcraftster6580 5 лет назад +42

    There is a fascinating traditional Korean story about Hong Gildong which has many parallels (outlaws turned heroes of the common folk etc). This makes me even more curious about the way these sorts of stories and parallels developed.

    • @nickpapadopoulos9978
      @nickpapadopoulos9978 3 года назад +3

      Could you tell me the story of Hong Gildong? I have never heard of him before!

    • @TheZigzach
      @TheZigzach 3 года назад +3

      @@nickpapadopoulos9978 LOL tell you the story here in the comment section??

    • @nickpapadopoulos9978
      @nickpapadopoulos9978 3 года назад +2

      @@TheZigzach yes!

    • @scottwallace901
      @scottwallace901 3 года назад +1

      @@nickpapadopoulos9978 *Hong Gildong* - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hong_Gildong_jeon

    • @sgk2511
      @sgk2511 2 года назад +1

      Gil=Ro=Road=Road God...not god ,but god's bloodline...🤭🤭🤭
      Robin=Ro(Road)-Bi(Rain)-In(People)...
      =Rain(Gods,Came from Heaven)'s road god people...
      Rome=Ro(Road) Me( Falcon)...
      =Falcon Goddess's Road(God) people...
      Ho(Me)=Lake=Lake Goddess...
      So(Me)=Marsh Goddess...
      Do(Me)=Sea Goddess...
      🤭🤭🤭👌👌👌 maybe origin...

  • @blackjed
    @blackjed 2 года назад +5

    Prince of Thieves, Men in Tights, BBC Robin Hood and one movie with jamie foxx "now its a jacket." The story that never gets old.

  • @Bear_the_shepherd
    @Bear_the_shepherd Год назад +12

    The first known literary reference to Robin Hood and his men was in 1377, and the Sloane manuscripts in the British Museum have an account of Robin’s life which states that he was born around 1160 in Lockersley (most likely modern day Loxley) in South Yorkshire. Another chronicler has it that he was a Wakefield man and took part in Thomas of Lancaster’s rebellion in 1322.

    • @Eadric_The_Wild
      @Eadric_The_Wild 7 месяцев назад

      I personally think he's based on the Silvatici; Englishmen who would ambush and murder Normans in the woods after the Norman conquest.
      We at least have several sources to confirm the existence of the Silvatici. King William himself instituted the Murdrum Fine with the 'Presentment of Englishry', in response to the actions of the Silvatici.

  • @tedthesailor172
    @tedthesailor172 4 года назад +60

    Excellent documentary with in-depth research about the myth, the man - or the men. Nicely edited with just the right mixture of wonder and speculation mixed with the fact and the prosaic, and equally enchanting location-work and lighting. Full marks, Tony. Others have suggested that the incidental music was excessive, but I experienced no problems with the balance in this regard.

    • @danaskubic2145
      @danaskubic2145 2 года назад +4

      I couldn't understand the narrative with the louder blasted music.

  • @BigDaddy-fx4nx
    @BigDaddy-fx4nx 5 лет назад +71

    Like all heroes he's based on a few men who lived at different times. He's a legend changed to suit the times of the day over many years.

    • @carrieowen5895
      @carrieowen5895 2 года назад +6

      Tights lol

    • @dannyinaus
      @dannyinaus 2 года назад +3

      exactly - just like The Man from Snowy River in Australia

  • @mscherylb7950
    @mscherylb7950 9 месяцев назад +2

    I used to visit the visitors centre, the oak etc plenty of times when I lived in Mansfield my born and bred town. I remember the first time I visited was when my grandad tuck me and he told me a story that years ago there used to be a round table inside the tree to show that there was/is room for Robin Hood and his merry men to hide inside. A grandad entertaining his 4 year old granddaughter.

  • @dr.s.p.
    @dr.s.p. 2 года назад +9

    A absolutely wonderful documentary leaving the viewer with hauntingly valid hopes amidst a somewhat disappointingly possibility of emptiness and yearning.

  • @markettext
    @markettext 4 года назад +13

    Great video, Tony Robinson always produces great historical videos....thanks.

  • @drgunsmith4099
    @drgunsmith4099 4 года назад +69

    There’s always some truths to legends and myths and folklore.

    • @pinkiesue849
      @pinkiesue849 2 года назад

      Yes, I believe that,and weren't the "nobles" of the age a bit reluctant to share food from the forest with us "commoners"?

  • @_M_a_r_t_i_n_M
    @_M_a_r_t_i_n_M 2 года назад +11

    Beautiful Historical detective work. I love your RUclips stuff A LOT more than when I watched your shows on History Channel here in Canada. You have more control over your work it seems. Cable TV was already dying off at the time though. Glad to see you still at it. Was a much bigger fan of your shows over that reality tv nonsense.

  • @sefghimassi8600
    @sefghimassi8600 2 года назад +28

    Excellent and highly entertaining documentary. It manages to be both rigorous and enjoyable to watch. Great stuff at the end, when we learn that there actually IS a basis for a late 12th century nobleman-turned-outlaw in the time of Richard the Lionheart. Thumbs up for this one!

  • @swedishpt
    @swedishpt 4 года назад +13

    Damn Tony Robinson, he walks miles in every documentary!! Well done m8!

  • @donnabarden9644
    @donnabarden9644 3 года назад +21

    Loved this episode!! I have allways loved the tale of Robing Hood, so did my dad. I have a first run edition of Robin Hood written in old english it is one of my favorite books!!!

    • @pinkiesue849
      @pinkiesue849 2 года назад +3

      wow I would like to see at least some of that here on RUclips

    • @dalehood1846
      @dalehood1846 2 года назад

      How wonderful, treasure it. Stay safe and GOD BLESS all.

  • @gailmackinnon7328
    @gailmackinnon7328 2 года назад +17

    Brilliant!! My heart leapt when Richard Greene appeared. The music and the sound of that arrow thunking into the tree took me back over 60 years. :-) I remember Tony's version as well :-) :-)

    • @leftyxbuffalo
      @leftyxbuffalo 2 года назад +2

      Twang-twang-twang! Whish-whish-whish! Thunk-thunk-thunk!

    • @spmoran4703
      @spmoran4703 2 года назад +1

      Robin Hood , Robin Hood . Riding through the glen.

    • @dalehood1846
      @dalehood1846 2 года назад +1

      I have DVD'S and VHS tapes of that 50's TV series. You got to love those shows. I think it makes us all wish for simpler times. I know I do. My dad's name really was Robin Hood. Try cashing a check in the 1960's with that name. Actually happened. He had to show his driver's license. Stay safe and GOD BLESS all.

    • @dalehood1846
      @dalehood1846 2 года назад

      @@spmoran4703 loved that song. Used to sing it as a kid. Good times.

  • @AndrewClarkePhotography
    @AndrewClarkePhotography 2 года назад +4

    Really interesting insights and well documented without opinion. Terrific documentary.

  • @Laura-Lee
    @Laura-Lee 3 года назад +12

    In a truly fairer world, I hope their would be no need for a Robin Hood at all!
    Thanks for a great show, Tony Robin's son. 🙋🏻‍♀️LL

  • @dirtcop11
    @dirtcop11 3 года назад +47

    All good myths have a kernel of truth to them. Robin Hood may have been a composite of several historical characters,

  • @sidnotvicious8442
    @sidnotvicious8442 2 года назад +3

    Thoroughly interesting and absorbing. Well done.

  • @louisetrott5532
    @louisetrott5532 6 месяцев назад +2

    Lovely to see Stephen Knight, who taught me Medieval History at the University of Sydney in the early 1980s. His lectures were so fantastic that students who were not even enrolled in the subject attended, out of interest.

    • @SNEED_FEED
      @SNEED_FEED 5 месяцев назад

      How far can you squirt?

  • @dr.elizabethmartin7118
    @dr.elizabethmartin7118 4 года назад +4

    As a child, I read my Mum's copy of ROBIN HOOD. I really don't remember most of it, but the death-scene made me cry. and I've never forgotten the tale. THANKS FOR POSTING! cheers

  • @coloringwithd
    @coloringwithd 3 года назад +8

    Absolutely fascinating. I never knew all of this. Thank you so much for the research and education. ♥♥♥

  • @woah6958
    @woah6958 2 года назад +4

    I really like the description of historians "scurrying off" to find more information.

  • @pirateshack9315
    @pirateshack9315 2 года назад +1

    Tony's the Best ! Thank You Tony for all your endless works !!!

  • @josephjacobson5369
    @josephjacobson5369 4 года назад +12

    I read a story about Robin Hood that he was Welsh.
    And I have always liked stories of Robin Hood!

  • @rikspector
    @rikspector Год назад +1

    Well done, Tony.
    You make it look so easy as well as interesting
    Cheers,
    Rik Spector!

  • @elidamaggi7098
    @elidamaggi7098 7 месяцев назад +2

    Greetings from Santa Fe, ARGENTINA 🇦🇷
    I enjoy your vídeos very much.
    ROBIN HOOD is one of my favourite heroes, since I was 4, si en I saw Erroll Flynn 's film.
    I don't care much ir he has existe or not . The importante thing is the values that ROBIN had , his courage, his honesty, his care for the people, victims of the powerful, ruthless authorities.
    In this present world where injustice reigns everywhere, hundreds of corageous modern ROBINS are needed.

  • @shibolinemress8913
    @shibolinemress8913 3 года назад +8

    Anyone remember the British Robin Hood series that was broadcast on PBS in the US in the mid 1970's? I watched that religiously as a kid, as I did "Poldark" and "I, Claudius" slightly later. Another favourite was "Meeting of Minds", in which historical figures gathered at a table to talk about their lives and discuss various themes that affected each of them in different ways. One episode I remember featured Thomas Jefferson, Karl Marx, Sun Yat-Sen, Gandhi and M.L. King discussing forms of civil disobedience and revolution Such incredible television back then!

    • @seamlab8870
      @seamlab8870 Год назад +1

      Yes, “Meeting of Minds” hosted by Steve Allen was great! I didn’t understand everything, but the actors playing the historical figures were impressive.

  • @Halfdanr_H
    @Halfdanr_H 5 лет назад +11

    The sound of dial up internet, that just catapulted me back to my childhood!

  • @MyelinProductions
    @MyelinProductions 2 года назад

    EXCELLENT! Great Information & History! Love it. Thank You! Peace & Health

  • @ianbeddowes5362
    @ianbeddowes5362 2 года назад +71

    Almost all legendary figures started around a real person around whom stories were told. Stories about one person in a pre-literate age became tangled with stories about similar people. And so the legends grow and at some stage become written down -- usually with embellishment from the writer.

    • @deborahvretis3195
      @deborahvretis3195 2 года назад +9

      Truth! My grandmother's maiden name was Robb. She told the story of Robb in Hood and said that this aristocrat was our ancestor. A story that has been told through generations and likely changed a bit. But, I find it all very interesting. Kind of like playing "telephone" when I was a kid. The story changes. Oh, and my maiden name is Yeoman.

    • @mikesnelling9272
      @mikesnelling9272 2 года назад +4

      Did you not watch the video, has poor old Tony Robinson been wasting his time?
      Euhemerism, the theory you are putting forward has long been discredited. Myths as this video explains are an amalgam of stories about various characters, some historical, some supernatural, some simply fictional. In future watch more carefully and LEARN

    • @wadeoliver3596
      @wadeoliver3596 2 года назад

      Nah. I think humans like to make up stories. It's just what we do. There doesn't have to be a shred of truth to the tales. There's no "real" Luke Skywalker, or Peter Parker, etc.. just aspirational stories of heroism.

    • @tonymaurice4157
      @tonymaurice4157 Год назад +1

      @@wadeoliver3596 Those are completely fictional comic book characters not based on any real life Events..

    • @darylcheshire1618
      @darylcheshire1618 Год назад

      @@mikesnelling9272 Sorry, I’ll skulk back to FB.

  • @johnlandau7111
    @johnlandau7111 3 года назад +17

    A close parallel that helps to explain the Robin Hood legends is the name "Dutch Schultz," which was apparently used by many criminals in the New York City urban area between sometime in the late nineteenth century and the 1920s and 30s. The individual we now remember as "Dutch Schultz" had a completely unrelated real name; he was a bootlegger and gambler of Jewish origin in the New York and Newark of the 1920s and thirties. But he always insisted on being known as "Dutch Schultz," or 'the Dutchman," although he had no known German or Dutch ancestry; he just borrowed the pseudonym from a long line of New York gangsters who had used it. I don't know whether historians have everidentified the original 19th-century "Dutch Schultz."
    There is even a sort of "Sheriff of Nottingham" in the Dutch Schultz story; Manhattan district attorney and future New York governor and presidential candidate, Thomas Dewey. "Dutch" was murdered by his associetes when he conspired to assassinate Dewey. His 'colleagues" knew that if he did that the wrath of the whole government establishment would come down on the "mob."
    And there is even still a mystery connected with "Dutch Schultz;" the location of a treaure that he is said to have buried somewhere in upstate New York, but has still not been found. Like the treasures of the Pirates of the Caribbean. I guess with bandits, facts and fiction are always mingled.

  • @deejayk5939
    @deejayk5939 3 года назад +5

    The idea of Robin Hood is more important than the actual facts, just like King Arthur.

    • @deejayk5939
      @deejayk5939 3 года назад

      But really interesting anyway!

  • @Saysonow
    @Saysonow 2 года назад +39

    *"In Robin's day, religious communities were notorious for their greed, lax morals, and hypocritical lifestyle."* I suppose we are still living in Robin Hood's day.

    • @MajorClownShoe
      @MajorClownShoe 10 месяцев назад +1

      No joke.

    • @patrickpearson4465
      @patrickpearson4465 10 месяцев назад

      Still happens today. And that's because,
      Matthew 12:32
      Revelation 22:16
      "jesus" of nazareth had not the Holy Spirit of GOD upon him, the bright and morningstar IS LUCIFER!

    • @jojobizadTRASH
      @jojobizadTRASH 10 месяцев назад

      If you wanna be fair, anything under King John's rule was absurdly corrupt to the point that it makes the disney counterpart look like a Saint. So it's not surprising that England would side with a thug over anything that had John's name on it.

    • @Saysonow
      @Saysonow 9 месяцев назад

      @@patrickpearson4465 The passages you pointed to do not support your conclusion, but believers areknown for this.

    • @ngauruhoezodiac3143
      @ngauruhoezodiac3143 6 месяцев назад

      Indeed, read Chaucer to learn what clergymen did.

  • @anzerupnik1442
    @anzerupnik1442 4 года назад +11

    OMG it's Baldrick. Makes this whole documentary much better :D

    • @monojitpatra397
      @monojitpatra397 2 года назад +1

      I recognised his voice before I recognised his face.

  • @jeffwalters8552
    @jeffwalters8552 6 лет назад +20

    He does a lot of scenes in or near pubs, brilliant!

    • @FunkyMonkey-ip4xy
      @FunkyMonkey-ip4xy 6 лет назад +6

      Jeff Walters The one at 15:20 ish is the Trip to Jerusalem in Nottingham. Parts of it are built into the rock the castle is on. There's a lot of boozers round that part of the city.

  • @carolannjeffries5862
    @carolannjeffries5862 5 месяцев назад +2

    Robin Hood was Disney's best animation. The music by Roger Miller, the voice characters, Phil Harris, Sir Hiss, Andy Divine, Clucky, and Phony John. Best ensemble cast for then❤❤❤❤ such creative lines and characters.

  • @annfahy9089
    @annfahy9089 2 года назад

    Great information. Really interesting 👍🏻

  • @aaronseet2738
    @aaronseet2738 5 лет назад +48

    HOLY SMOKES dial-up modem to get onto Internet; good times.

    • @cabooseabs6864
      @cabooseabs6864 5 лет назад +2

      Thought the same thing. I was using a cable modem by the time I was using Google.

    • @sheenaalexis8710
      @sheenaalexis8710 3 года назад +3

      The horror!!!

    • @alexandramachado3124
      @alexandramachado3124 3 года назад +2

      Lmao i was shocked too!

    • @whidoineedthis
      @whidoineedthis 3 года назад +6

      Remember when the internet came on the discs? They always send INTERNET EXPLORER, AOL, an NETSCAPE NAV.

    • @lovelife8968
      @lovelife8968 3 года назад +1

      It's a unicorn!

  • @destyrian
    @destyrian 5 лет назад +28

    I used to watch Maid Marion and her merry men religiously when I was a kid. I miss it.

    • @PibrochPonder
      @PibrochPonder 3 года назад +3

      Yea it was pretty good.

    • @dougchance8891
      @dougchance8891 3 года назад +3

      Doryun
      Maid Marion was not the name of Robin's girlfriend.
      It was a girl named-
      Trudy Glen
      A young Irish Traveler- around Robin's time-used to sing-
      Robin Hood- Robin Hood- riding Trudy Glen.
      The English would sing-
      Robin Hood Robin Hood riding through the glen

    • @marklammas2465
      @marklammas2465 2 года назад +1

      @@dougchance8891🤣

    • @dougchance8891
      @dougchance8891 2 года назад +1

      @@marklammas2465
      Cheers

  • @John-mh6mi
    @John-mh6mi Год назад +1

    Great show tony is great at telling a wonderful tale you want to believe. Miss him a lot...

  • @5610winston
    @5610winston 2 года назад +3

    I remember a sketch from Dave Allen At Large, Robin and one of the merry men step up to a tree, pause for a moment obviously doing what one would expect travelers to do when pausing by a tree, and as they walk away, Robin (Dave Allen) says, "I always wondered why they call you Little John."

  • @punditgi
    @punditgi 3 года назад +24

    Love the story about the stories. A tale well told! Definitely deserves a pint at the local pub! 😃

    • @spmoran4703
      @spmoran4703 2 года назад

      For you Ezra. Of course.

    • @dalehood1846
      @dalehood1846 2 года назад +1

      I would buy, however, for me, it's a good cup of tea. Stay safe and GOD BLESS all.

    • @punditgi
      @punditgi 2 года назад +1

      @@dalehood1846 Right! Earl Grey or English Breakfast! 😃

  • @YoloMenace001
    @YoloMenace001 4 года назад +10

    The Robin Hood legend is embraced in the Nottinghamshire culture alot and I mean alot

  • @railcentraluk9346
    @railcentraluk9346 2 года назад +4

    Robin hood the most skilled archer in england may god bless his soul

  • @vickihshallenberger3644
    @vickihshallenberger3644 8 месяцев назад +2

    Thank you personally for your documentaries ! They're very enjoyable. As far as Robin Hood is concerned I will always think of him as being a hero whether he was a real person or not! I choose to believe he was probably a real person.

  • @talatanand7103
    @talatanand7103 6 лет назад +158

    Windows Media Player, the sound of a dial-up modem? Going for historical accuracy here, are we?

    • @Steeleperfect
      @Steeleperfect 6 лет назад +2

      You know dial up is still a thing, right?

    • @nicodabastard
      @nicodabastard 6 лет назад +2

      Steeleperfect really? Where and why? Not in first world country right?

    • @nicodabastard
      @nicodabastard 6 лет назад +3

      Talat Anand and that was hilarious you win the internet!

    • @Tom-uv7ry
      @Tom-uv7ry 5 лет назад +6

      This was filmed years ago you idiot

    • @KjartanAndersen
      @KjartanAndersen 5 лет назад +9

      @@Tom-uv7ry Exactly. Filmed in 2003 and as I recall we still had dial-up systems available then (some places they still use it according to Internet)

  • @alexspareone3872
    @alexspareone3872 3 года назад +6

    One of my most funny encounters was with a very beatiful British girl whose friend introduced her as Maid Marion. It happenned that she had a while before worked at a Robin Hood tourist theme centre and had plaiyed the part of the famouse bandits girlfriend. Truly, she was a star casting for that role.

  • @PeterPan-iz1kk
    @PeterPan-iz1kk 2 года назад

    Excellent documentary! Thanks! :-)

  • @veganian2019
    @veganian2019 2 года назад

    Seeing Tony hunched over his laptop as he waits for the dial-up internet connection! 😂🤣 love it!

    • @marklammas2465
      @marklammas2465 2 года назад +1

      Robin probably did the same... "The WiFi signal in this bloody forest is hopeless, Tuck!"

  • @cynthiaweathers6979
    @cynthiaweathers6979 4 года назад +15

    Richard Green played my favorite Robin. As a kid, I never missed a show.

  • @sthomas6369
    @sthomas6369 5 лет назад +17

    "Space Robin Hood" has already been done. Look at the Firefly series as an example: Captain Malcom as Robin, the noble, honorable outlaw, he has a band of outlaws that use space as their forest. The characters bare some similarity to the "modern classic" tale.

    • @Roarmeister2
      @Roarmeister2 5 лет назад +4

      Rocket Robin Hood - Canadian series from the 1960's.

  • @josephmarino3045
    @josephmarino3045 Год назад +1

    Very enjoyable video. During the mock archery tournament I recognized Kevin Hicks voice. I watched him on other videos. The last one was being the surgeon removing the arrow from the king's face.

  • @nancymills1884
    @nancymills1884 2 года назад +1

    I always loved the Robin Hood series in black and white. I still love the stories, and to learn the background is wonderful.

  • @mastrofnone8025
    @mastrofnone8025 4 года назад +16

    I like watching Tony's documentarys

  • @christophermills7693
    @christophermills7693 3 года назад +10

    The Legend of Robin Hood I do not believe was inspired by one man, but by many different men regardless if there was a Robin of Locksley

  • @lindaliriel
    @lindaliriel 11 месяцев назад +1

    With the sound of the internet connecting, this documentary feels like a relic itself...Histoy telling history...

  • @roypatton1707
    @roypatton1707 2 года назад +1

    This is the most comprehensive look at Robin Hood that I've seen.
    Somehow, it feels right that he didn't live in Sherwood forest.

  • @SMDoktorPepper
    @SMDoktorPepper 3 года назад +8

    Part of the family legend was we were related to someone the story is based on...and a few years ago, my sister picked up the geneology hobby, and found ancestors in Nottingham during the period it supposedly happened.

    • @matthoward7645
      @matthoward7645 Год назад

      So you found relatives in literally the least likely area and place the 'historical' basis of the character comes from 🙄🤣

  • @Skooty68
    @Skooty68 6 лет назад +45

    That 'Robins Hoods Well' is 1 mile away from where i live,and Barnsdale is about 4 miles up the road

    • @michielvdvlies3315
      @michielvdvlies3315 4 года назад

      have you seen the documentary from colin the head? ruclips.net/video/JU6Vc22yIWU/видео.html

    • @tinapresley4286
      @tinapresley4286 3 года назад

      WOW!! Lucky PERSON you are... I would love to go there...I'm in Arizona USA

    • @NinjaLegacy805
      @NinjaLegacy805 3 года назад

      That's awesome, looks like a place I'd like

    • @NinjaLegacy805
      @NinjaLegacy805 3 года назад

      California here 1 mile from the Pacific, would rather be 1 mile from that tho

    • @simongleaden2864
      @simongleaden2864 3 года назад

      Has Robin Hood's Bay got any actual connection with Robin Hood? It's in Yorkshire too, but a long way from Barnsdale.

  • @richardh1764
    @richardh1764 2 года назад

    That was really interesting, thank you.

  • @Stonewall1861
    @Stonewall1861 2 года назад +1

    Robin Hood is a all time great stories .Thank you

  • @aureliadestiny2482
    @aureliadestiny2482 5 лет назад +42

    Most probably the title Robin Hood was handed down through the same family or to a worthy man, as was done in The Princess Bride with The Dread Pirate Roberts. Once one Robin became too old or tired of it, the title went to the next man and the old took on another name, or perhaps their original one again. That would explain how the different men were spread over many timelines. For all we know, it may still be handed down to this day, but of course they’d be doing good in more modern ways and also staying close to the British monarchy. It would be a cool theory.

    • @nathanwalker6360
      @nathanwalker6360 3 года назад +6

      The names Bond, James Bond... (lights ciggie)

    • @GuinessOriginal
      @GuinessOriginal 2 года назад +6

      The names Hood,, Robin Hood, fires arrow