Bob White has spent 26 years promoting Robin Hood and the City of Nottingham through his work in the press and tourism industries. Below, he explains how the Society came about.
It has now been over a year since a group of us sat discussing the fact that Nottingham did not have it’s own Robin Hood Society. We were aware that the previous society, headed by Mr Jim Lees, probably the world’s foremost expert on Robin Hood, had ceased to function several years previously. Knowing that societies existed in many cities around the world, it seemed lacking that the very birthplace of the legend was not represented and we decided to something about it.
The next question was how to go about it. Through my work promoting Robin Hood and Nottingham for the last 26 years, I was well aware of the massive interest in the legend throughout the world. Other colleagues were developing a keen interest in the power of the internet as a huge force in global communications. It therefore seemed logical to try something completely different to what had gone before and form a new type of Society; one based primarily through the medium of the Internet.
We quickly found out that, across the world, interest in the Robin Hood legend is as strong, if not stronger than ever. Long may it continue.
