The Peasants' Revolt: England Erupts (TRIH ep 413, part 1)
1381 · Resource
Tom Holland and Dominic Sandbrook trace the causes and early outbreak of the 1381 Peasants' Revolt. Placing the uprising in the wider context of the waning fortunes of Edward III's England and the ongoing Hundred Years' War, they explain how repeated poll taxes, military failures, and resentment toward conspicuous elite wealth (notably John of Gaunt and his Savoy Palace) provoked popular anger.
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Around 1381
- Peasants' Revolt in England (1381)
- Black Death (1346)
- Hundred Years' War (1337)
- Ming dynasty (1368)
- Renaissance (1400)
- Chaucer's Canterbury Tales (1387)
- Forbidden City built (1406)
- Sultanate of Malacca founded (1400)
- Joseon dynasty (1392)
- Age of Exploration (1418)