Episode 374 - The English Peasants' Revolt: Part 1

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Part 1/3

Peasants in Essex and Kent rise up after multiple tax hikes and one too many laws are written regulating their hats, shoes, and diets. Soon, London would burn.

Sources:

Dan Jones. Summer of Blood: Peasants' Revolt Of 1381

Alastair Dunn. The Peasants' Revolt: England's Failed Revolution of 1381

Andrew Prescott. The Hand of God: The Suppression of the Peasants' Revolt

John Hatcher. Plague, Population, and the English Economy, 1348-1530