What if Robin Hood was never a single person, but every generation's way of saying the system is broken, and someone needs to fix it?

In this episode of Histories and Castles Deep Dive, we trace the Robin Hood legend from its roots in 15th-century ballads to its reinvention across centuries of literature, film, and popular culture. The earliest Robin Hood was not a noble champion of the poor, he was a violent yeoman outlaw, operating in a very specific world of medieval grievance and forest law. What happened to that figure, and why, tells us as much about power as the legend itself does.

Listeners will discover:

• How the original medieval ballads portrayed Robin Hood, and how different that figure is from the one we know
• The transition from yeoman o ...