The True Story Behind the Bloody Peasants' Revolt of 1381
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- The 14th Century is often called the worst century in the whole of British history - plague, war and famine! And amidst all this chaos, the first recorded act of public rebellion in English history sent revolutionary ripples across the entire medieval world. This uprising is remembered as the “Peasants Revolt” of 1381, but now History Hit’s medieval expert, Matt Lewis, looks beyond the ancient propaganda in this new 3-part series which reveals the previously unknown stories of the ordinary folk of the Peasants' Revolt.
Matt and the History Hit team have been working closely with investigative historians from the groundbreaking 1381 Project, The People of 1381 who have found documents that highlight the revolt as the first popular manifesto for a better society.
These films reveal that this extraordinary rebellion lit the flames of revolutionary change stretching across the whole of England and beyond, reverberating far past those hot summer days of 1381.
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Tony Robinson also did a very good one on the Peasant's Revolt a few years back - it's on TH-cam! Nice to see Dr Eleanor adding her knowledge in too!
Big Tee-Robs proper geezer, one of me favourites
Tony Robinson is an annoying little weirdo.
Robinson and Loades in the same doc instant classic Tony's goatee at the time has also become legendary
I'm not a fan of Robinson. I don't think he's very trustworthy
@@dshe8637 how dare u speak ill of Baldrick (jokes)
Our man Lee offering top weapons intelligence, here. Thanks for having him on!
Absolutely brilliant ! Loved this. Would like to have seen the last episode on the lasting effects of the revolt after Watt Tyler’s death and the subsequent dispersal of the crowds from London. I hope this is uploaded to TH-cam rather than just on HH channel. Thanks
Matt Lewis. Peasants Revolt. Over an hour.
Oh I'm in.
The peasants are revolting is an old and tested joke. But I really appreciate you explaining the levels of wealth within that community of people. I had always (wrongly) assumed all peasants were poor.
Has to be a Terry Deary line surely.
@@luckyspursit's from Blackadder.
I believe that serfs are the poor peasants most people think of when thinking about poverty in medieval times. Peasants are another class entirely
@@phoebeel That seems fair enough. I came away from this video with a better understanding the roles of non-royalty.
The English equivalent of the serf class were called "villains".
I could listen to Matt Lewis talk all day 😊
I wish they offered a version in modern English, I always have to use subtitles because his unique dialogue is so hard to understand.
D: "Come and see the violence inherent in the system! Help, help, I'm bein' repressed!"
A: "Bloody peasant!"
D: "Oh, what a giveaway! Did you see that? Did you see him repressin' me? You saw it, didn't you?..."
Monty Python
Now come see! the violence inherent in The System!
Thanks to the 1381 project, I found another ancestor to add to our huge family tree
It's great, isn't it!
Whose side were they on?
I will laugh at you if your part of this year's stupid riots.
At least the pease ts took direct action instead of whining about having money, a car and a mortgage.
Seems pointless to me
It was a wonderful historical coverage video about peasant revolt in 1381 in Britain 🇬🇧....thank you 🙏 (history Hit ) for sharing
This is a fantastic documentary. Getting to know a bit about figures such as John of Gaunt in their time, as opposed to in context of the wars of the roses (a huge interest of mine), is like piecing together an historical puzzle in my mind ❤
Good this. Thanks Matthew and team! 🌟👍
Glad you enjoyed it!
Well done Matt, another gem.
"People just didn't pay." Take note folks, take note. "The lords do eat and drink the poor man's flesh and blood."
History likes to repeat itself.
Love Matt and Dr Janega! Please do more!
Looks like history could repeat itself
Yeah Trump supporters only have money to buy his Trump watches apparently lol
Dr. Eleanor Janega is the real star of this show. HistoryHit are so lucky to have her. She’s incredible
She was talking nonsense. Couldn't get social structure of the time anywhere near correct and kept using non existent terms like 'peasant' and 'serf' neither of which were ever used by the people they were attributed to
Yea he's great
@@Shinobi33 She’s*
@@DallingerM HE
Great video! Especially enjoyed listening to Dr. Yarnigar!
I'm a Peasant Revolting that you give us 2 free episodes & then force me into paying for the 3rd episode... *Throws rocks
I love listening to and learning from Dr Eleanor!..
Thank you for this post, very interesting and educational.
Yesss Matt Lewis! I'm currently reading his book on Richard III
Please read: “A Distant Mirror, The Calamatous 14th Century” by Barbara Tuchman 1977. My favorite book ❤️
And I love the historical novel _Katherine_, by Anya Seton. The title character is one of the wives of John of Gaunt. Katherine’s sister married Chaucer. We were assigned to read this for an English literature class.
@@leecotton3242Thanks. I love Chaucer, so I’ll read that one.
Excellent presentation of a complex issue. Thank you. In 1981 the 600th anniversary of the Peasant's Revolt and the meeting with King Richard at Mile End was commemorated by a magnificent mural on the wall of a Tower Hamlet's municipal building in Canal Road in the East End. Only 8 years later Thatcher propelled Britain forward into the 14th century by imposing a poll tax. The more things change...
I very much enjoyed your video and I gave it a Thumbs Up
Excellent content as always!
Excellent presentation Matthew!
Sounds very much like today, it’s amazing how history repeats itself again and again, I’d be worried if I was rich and greedy in today’s world
I know, we need to revolt! At least here in America. The way we are taxed, and the way our food is grown.
When there’s revolt, the higher ups release the germs.
Well, I can see history repeating itself very soon
More like the Bronze Age Collapse in 1177BC. Some good stuff on here by Eric Cline
Some parallels with the revolutions of France and Russia as well
Excellent program thank you
Dr. Janega always gets my attention. She has a way of explaining things in a concrete, intellectual and entertaining manner. If I were straight, I’d be in amorous admiration!
"Sir, the peasants are revolting!"
"They certainly are."
There was a Coco Pops ad back in the 80s.
Christian: "Captain Bligh, Captain Bligh! The crew are revolting!"
Bligh: "Yuck Mr Christian. They ARE revolting."
I know I can smell them from here😂
Please upload rest of the episode to TH-cam 🙏
History is repeating itself, under a new face.
Kind of impressed that Helen Castor didn't advertise her new book, given it's literally about Richard II and Henry IV.
Such an interesting period in history.
It may have been edited out of course . Maybe ladies don't lower themselves to such actions?
Another great documentary, but I will say that I am not a fan of the AI generated portraits used.
It distracts from the high quality of the documentary by looking cheap, uncanny and out of place.
Thanks.
The British seemed to have forgotten the role of taxation in 1381 Peasants revolt when they tried to tax the American colonies in the 1700s? It seems to me that they didn’t learn from their own history?
This was so illuminating and very interesting 🤔 thank you so much
this ends with the host saying in part three… So where do we find part three?
11:21 I still remember the extremely big & violent riots, on 🇳🇱Dutch TV, that went on in 1990 London🇬🇧. When PM Margaret Thatcher re-introduced "The Poll Tax" introducing a flat-rate for each and every British citizen. Boy, it looked like a civil war was going down in London, after other big cities had seen huge demonstrations.
Yes they were pretty successful!
I abhor violence, I was a young man when the poll tax conflict was happening, I instead wrote a lot of graffiti against the iron witch and her mobsters, now I'm in my sixties and living in spain I'm still graffiting against my corrupt local council...🤪🙊🙉🙈👎😺😸😹💩🤡
This is excellent.
Much of Working Class history is hidden or played down.
There is a good long running podcast called working class history. It's amazing!
Timely
Looks like The Peasants Revolt 2.0 is going on right now in Britain.
The Peasants Revolt of 2024.
Yet they've made it easier and harder to do at the same time. How complicit are the powers that be in initiating this one on purpose to cause chaos? They want to do it in the US too.
@@SpiritGirlSF its easier to blame shit on shadowy forces than come to terms your autism makes it hard to undertand nuance.
Great vid, and a good job, Dr Eleonor is fabulous its not just her extensive knowledge, but more like she was actually there!
The Peasants will rise again!
Ironic that this was posted two ago considering the current situation in the U.K.
Nice touch using some of the historians as models for depictions of the peasant leaders.
The story is a lot different from my history lesson at school, back in the day. Who else thinks this Gaunt, looks like Ian McShane, of Lovejoy. 😂 Thank you i enjoyed this .
Me/ I was about to write that same entry
I wish they would make a miniseries drama out of this.
Me to honestly one of those historical events that’s just so good for tv but is never captured
I'm always struck by how often the people of England rise up in revolt and are told some lies and go home.
That’s not quite fair, sometimes it was raining so they went in.
Compared to the US a country that half the population believe every word a great orange buffoon tells them. You yanks need to watch this because you heading back to the middle ages.
But they all came to America, made war against taxes but ended up paying taxes to the US tax department.
So wait. Did I hear the end right? There is another video that wraps up this topic? Where is this video? I must see it!
New subscriber. Thanks. This was very interesting and the presenter and guests were really engaging. A bit pedantic but I was taught 'head on a pike' and wonder if it's always been an either/or 🤔
Talk about perfect timing.
There might be a modern Peasants’ Revolt occurring at the moment
The unpopularity of Pole-Tax of the Middle-Ages didn't prevent it's return.
I think the way History Hit is starting to overuse and abuse AI art is really disappointing.
I mean, FFS there are actual images of John of Gaunt and instead you give us an AI imagining of Al Pacino in the 16th C. This is bad history presentation, incredibly lazy and deeply insulting to your audience.
Isn't this occurring now, or about to?
The 1990 Poll Tax riots in opposition to what Margaret (spit) Thatcher introduced were significant and are under discussed!
Matt is the ultimate history zaddy. Just saying.
Damn... his parents named him 'Bill' Payable... wow...
Where’s episode 3? It said it would be in the comments?
“The peasants are revolting”
“Yes. They’re dreadful”
Should be in bed, staying up to learn about the Peasants’ Revolt
Taxes are crazy these days lol.
11:00 "This is a tax for NOTHING. Sounds fair!" WUT
Grimjack, John of Gaunt, is represented here by a picture that looks like one of Sylvester Stallone.
I thought the picture of John of Gaunt looked a lot like Ian McShane.
@@rogerroger5171 exactly
If something is described as the "True Story" it shouldn't end after 75 mins with ...and in the next chapter... The title should include 'Part 1' or similar!😢
it should be called the People's Revolt
joan the fair maid of kent...
cosmeton was in the vale of glamorgan,,bro morgannwg, the welsh marches...
outside of the kingdom of england ... but part of richard II crown lands...often held by his distant norman relatives...
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Around the 3 1/4 centuries later, these issues over land and taxation would leader to the English Civil War.
So to be accurate, the "peasants" were the Kings' army, since England had no standing army. They were battle hardened and formidable.
The frustration of wage suppression and being tied to land when the world has Changed. And then a poll tax.... there were going to be issues.
Does anyone else find “Frawnce” troubling?
awbsolutely
Ye Kynggdome of Frawnce doth bother me most prodigiously.
I even find France troubling .
I don't get why you would use those awful A.I rendered images...
whoever they are paying, or not paying to make those images could spend more than 5 seconds on them
lol
@@annettedelorean706 Seriously, their A.I rendered Simon Sudbury looks like Jevgenij Prigosjin
Ian McShane as John of Gaunt!
13:55 ish. Looking nervous 😊.
Is it safe to say that many peasants at any time had military experience, and the Royals drafted them as archers, and infantry? That would mean they are not completely helpless as we are lead to believe. Peasants are often depicted as victims of invaders/raiders like Vikings. The bad guys just swoop in and have their way with peasants. But if the average peasant has military training and are at least expected to be called up to serve in feudal levees, then then they must have some way of putting up a fight.
10%??? that is amazing I wish we had 10% now
So they give us 2 out of 3 parts here on youtube, and direct us to the 3rd part ... behind a paywall on their own site, but you dont know that till you get there. Not cool.
They trusted a king (a norman decendant at that) and suffered the consequences. What a surprise
Way too many commercials be able to enjoy this. Smh
I wish everyone knew that there are many forms of slavery! Taxation is slavery! It means controlled by someone or something! The wage is also a form of slavery!
There should be equal wealth worldwide. 18:12
I wish everyone also knows that you truly don't own your house to property. If you don't pay your taxes on it, the government will take it. That means you're just renting it from them!!
Enguerrand VII, Squire de Coucy
Everywhere nowadays is like the poor vs the rich..
Notice how people know who is making them poor and oppressed here are the powerful nobles who are taking the products of their labour in the fields. And not whatever the culture wars tells us should be the target of their outrage like in current times. They know who the enemy is at this point. They're very clear about it.
13:26 Not much changes does it.
The nobilty who spoke no English whilst the peasants groan in Middle English
Richard II: Vous étiez des serfs et vous êtes des serfs
And they're still smearing the ones revolting. Some things never change.
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Whats up with the stupid sound effects in this video? They seem to dropped randomly here in there. A sudden pop sound or screeching sound. It's starteling and destroys the enjoyability of the video.
13:50 she's so based
He*
@@harrybalsagne616okay weirdo
Dr. Eleanor, god I adore her!
Mama Janega!!
Aren't excessive profits legalised tax on the poor?
Peasant: a poor smallholder or agricultural labourer of low social status (chiefly in historical use or with reference to subsistence farming in poorer countries).
When I became a Freemason I was told that the Peasant's Revolt was the real beginning of our lodge system.
At 6:10 this so-called expert says something so stupid that I can't be bothered to continue watching the documentary. It's actually quite good, every once in a while to get such a wake-up call, which reminds me to think critically. It's easy for a British historian to define "peasant" to be a farmer, since Britain never had serfdom...but that's bullshit. "Peasant" is the term for the lowest class where most did not own land and were only allowed to cultivate enough to scrape a living by giving away most of their labor to a landowner. In most of Europe, peasants were not free to leave the farm they lived on, they were owned by skin and hair, they were slaves. So no, some peasants were not rich. Here we distinguish between "farmer" and "peasant".
Is it just me or some of the squire team here lol
Surprised that Adam Sandler was there
How do we find the sequel video? Very annoying that it is not offered here. For heaven’s sake so much for History Hit tv.
Good on Joanna, not much has changed 😂