Some peasants felt that such a young king could be pressurised into making changes that would improve their lives. The trigger for the revolt came in May 1381. A tax collector arrived in Fobbing ...

The Peasants’ Revolt, which engulfed eastern England in June 1381, was far from unique. The French Jacquerie of 1358, the Parisian revolution of the same year, the rising of the Ciompi in industrial ...

In 1381, peasants rebelled against King Richard II. They were angry about a range of issues, such as low wages, and demanded change.

Armed with placards and signs screaming "the peasants are revolting", "feudal tyrant stealing common land" and "arrogance, ignorance and greed", this band of Cornish folk are prepared to do ...

“People with a particular background, work background. People with a very poor background, a sort of peasant background, very, very rural, almost cut off from even the home origin countries that ...

Once the site of a notorious prison, this little alley just to the north of Ludgate Hill in the City of London has an ...

In February 1974, Indian President VV Giri and Prime Minister Indira Gandhi received a letter from Kerala with an unexpected request: “promoting a mass emigration of Indian peasants” to Brazil.

It brought down Margaret Thatcher.

OUR tour begins at The Wat Tyler in Dartford, Kent, named after a leader of the Peasants’ Revolt in 1381 which forced the young King Richard II to agree to liberate them from serfdom. As the pub sign ...