The Peasants Revolt - pt 1

Feb 25, 2022

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England in the 14th century was in crisis.

Famine had torn through the country in the first half of the century & extreme weather had battered the residents' properties, ports and farms causing widespread damage, taking yeas to recover from.

The black death had swept over the world killing an estimated 25 million people globally and half of England's population overall.

The feudal system was exploiting those surviving workers and capping wages and to top it all off repeated wars with France caused the king to pass on those costs to the population in the form of a poll tax.

This poll tax was the final straw for the working people and contempt for the monarchy and the law makers began bubbling under the surface.

When the king died and his 10 year old son took to the throne, the peasants knew what they had to do in order to convince the young boy that things needed to change.

The only way to get what they wanted was to show their strength in numbers and march to London. However, this wouldn’t be a peaceful process, they wanted blood.

Today on Macabre London, we uncover the story of the Peasants Revolt.

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