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30th May 1381: Outbreak of the Peasants’ Revolt in England
Category: Society & Culture
Duration: 00:00:00
Publish Date: 2018-05-29 21:05:48
Description: The Peasants’ Revolt was triggered when John Bampton arrived in Essex to investigate non-payment of the poll tax. Although sparked by the introduction of a new poll tax, the roots of the Peasants’ Revolt lay in the dramatic social and economic upheaval that had emerged after the devastation of the Black Death. The plague had reached England in 1348 and soon wiped out up to half of the entire population. In the aftermath the surviving peasantry had demanded better wages and conditions, so grew increasingly angry at the government’s attempts to limit such changes. This resentment was aggravated by the introduction ...
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