the Peasants’ Revolt

Ordinary women make just as thrilling history as great men

28 October 2023 9:00 am

Philippa Gregory investigates the lives of English women over 900 years – in sickness, health, business, war, prayer and prostitution

The Peasants’ Revolt — such a thrilling moment in English history — has eluded novelists in the past

29 October 2015 9:00 am

Considering that it was, as Melvyn Bragg rightly puts it, ‘the biggest popular uprising ever experienced in England’, the Peasants’…