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The Peasants' Revolt, also named Wat Tyler's Rebellion or the Great Rising, was a major uprising across large parts of England in 1381. The revolt had various causes, including the socio-economic and political tensions generated by the Black Death in the 1340s, the high taxes resulting from the conflict with France during the Hundred Years' War , and instability within the local leadership of ...
Peasants’ Revolt (1381), first great popular rebellion in English history. Its immediate cause was the imposition of the poll tax of 1380, which brought to a head the economic unrest that had been growing since the middle of the century. The rebellion drew support from agricultural laborers as well as urban artisans.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
Narrator (peasant man): As peasants, we led a tough life. We were forced to work long and gruelling hours in the fields for the Lord of the Manor just to pay our rent. We were the lowest part of ...
- Aftermath of A Devastating Pandemic
- Tensions Boil Over
- March to The Capital
- Negotiations
- The Smithfield Meeting
The Black Death saw terrible waves of plague sweep Europe: England’s population was ravaged, with somewhere between 30 and 50% of the population dying. As a result of this, the peasantry – who had previously been kept under a system of serfdom which greatly restricted their freedom – became more scarce and had more land available to them. Their lab...
The revolt is judged to have broken out in Essex on 30 May, when MP John Bampton arrived to investigate non-payment of poll tax. The south-east of England had always been its wealthiest region, and as a result there were very few unpaid serfs there and the peasants enjoyed a better quality of life than elsewhere. It was therefore the hotbed of the ...
On 7 June they elected a leader called Wat Tyler at the town of Maidstone – a tough and charismatic man whose origins are mysterious but who appears to have fought in France as one of the renowned English longbowmen. Now it had a leader with clear aims, the revolt gathered momentum and purpose. Tyler’s first move was marching on the castle-town of ...
Richard decided that he ought to meet the rebels, but the attempted talks failed when he lost heart and refused to get out of his boat onto the bank where their men were waiting. After this, the mob decided that negotiations were worthless and marched through the open gates of London, where many of the locals joined them. There they repeated their ...
Another meeting between the rebel leader and the King took place at Smithfield on 15 June and this time Richard brought a substantial force of armoured men with him, though it was still dwarfed by the force of thousands of grim-faced rebels facing him. At this meeting Tyler treated the King with condescension and rudeness, and an argument between h...
- Sarah Roller
Jan 23, 2020 · The Peasants ' Revolt, also known as the Great Revolt, was a largely unsuccessful popular uprising in England in June 1381. The rebellion's leaders included Wat Tyler and they wanted massive social changes which included a removal of the poll tax, an end to the cap on labour wages, redistribution of the Church's wealth and the total abolition ...
- Mark Cartwright
The Peasants' Revolt happened in 1381. Large numbers of poor peasants marched to London to protest to the King (Richard II) about high taxes, low wages, bad government advisors and unfair treatment.
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1750-1900 is often referred to as the age of revolution as it was a period in history home to some of the most revolutionary revolts. Major peasants’ revolts or revolts with aims to gain equality for peasants were the American Revolution (1775-84), the French Revolution (1789-99), the Philippine Revolution (1896-98) and the Russian Revolution ...
