the Peasants’ Revolt
The Great Uprising: Doom Painting, by A.K. Blakemore, reviewed
In the torrid summer of 1381, Wat Tyler, the charismatic leader of the Peasants’ Revolt, assumes he is headed for hell
Ordinary women make just as thrilling history as great men
Philippa Gregory investigates the lives of English women over 900 years – in sickness, health, business, war, prayer and prostitution
Who was then the gentleman?
Considering that it was, as Melvyn Bragg rightly puts it, ‘the biggest popular uprising ever experienced in England’, the Peasants’…
