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2011 Festival Theme: “Peasants Revolt”

The year is 1381, and the stage is set for revolution… The peasants are always rebelling against royalty, but only this rebellion earned the title “The Peasants’ Revolt”. Discontent has been spreading throughout the land as King Richard II and his regent John of Gaunt oppress the peasants by tripling the poll tax and preventing them from working where they want. The peasants have had enough! Click here to read more…

The Peasant’s Revolt is also referred to as Wat Tyler's Rebellion, or the Great Rising of 1381.

History of the 1381 Revolt

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peasants%27_Revolt

http://www.britannia.com/history/articles/peasantsrevolt.html

http://www.newworldencyclopedia.org/entry/Peasants'_Revolt_(1381)

http://www.historylearningsite.co.uk/peasants_revolt.htm

http://www.loyno.edu/~history/journal/1986-7/milone.htm

Videos

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1iuKR1dv9U0

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iiy_pUHLVFw

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RloMHHS5zng&NR=1

Maps

http://maps.thefullwiki.org/Peasants'_Revolt

Further Reading

· R. B. Dobson, editor (2002), The Peasants' Revolt of 1381 (History in Depth), ISBN 0-333-25505-4; a collection of source materials

· Alastair Dunn (2002), The Great Rising of 1381: The Peasant's Revolt and England's Failed Revolution, ISBN 0-7524-2323-1

· Charles Oman (1906), The Great Revolt of 1381; a classic account

· Andrew Godsell (2008), "The Peasants' Revolt and the Radical Tradition" in Legends of British History

· P. J. P. Goldberg (2004), Medieval England 1250–1550: A Social History, ISBN 0-340-57745-2; Chapter 13 is devoted to the Peasants' Revolt.

· Christopher Hampton (1984), A Radical Reader: The Struggle for Change in England, 1381–1914

· John J. Robinson (1990), Born in Blood: The Lost Secrets of Freemasonry, ISBN 0-87131-602-1; Chapters 1–5 concern the Peasants' Revolt. It makes a (somewhat speculative) case for a Knights Templar connection, tracing some revolt features (e.g., the names of leaders, especially Wat Tyler, the special targets of the destruction in London, etc.) to traditions surviving the suppression of that order and its destruction on the Continent a few generations earlier.

· A contemporary chronicle, the final meeting of King Richard II and the leader of the Peasants' Revolt, Wat Tyler.

· "The Peasants' Revolt", Voices of the powerless – readings from original sources, BBC Radio programme, Thursday 25 July 2002, 9.02 am – 9.30 am.

· Britannia: The History of the Peasants' Revolt by Jeff Hobbs with useful bibliography

· "Wat Tyler's Rebellion" from The Chronicles of Froissart

· "King Richard punishes the rebels in Kent" from The Chronicles of Froissart, edited by Steve Muhlberger, Nipissing University

· A Dream of John Ball; and, a King's Lesson by William Morris (Project Gutenberg etext)

· "Conflagration: The Peasants' Revolt" by Melissa Snell

· Fire, Bed & Bone by Henrietta Branford is a children's book looking at the Peasants' Revolt from the viewpoint of one of the participants' dogs.

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