The moral of the story is when you get a chance to rid yourself of your enemy - do so immediately. Do not trust anything he says promising you reforms in your favor.
The problem is we don't speak with one voice anymore. They fragmented us, divided us up Machiavellian style. They learnt from history centuries before we sheeple even began to wake up.
I know this program was uploaded years ago, but nonetheless I wanted to take the time and say thank you for the upload! I really enjoyed this entire show, and actually learned some new things about Peasants' Revolt I didn't know before. CHEERS!🍺
Worth the viewing just to see Tony Robinson practicing with weapons :) Powerful documentary brought alive in a well articulated style. Thanks for the upload.
Amazing documentary, I have much respect for Tony Robinson from watching Time Team as a kid and later Worst Jobs in History, though the former I preferred the most. I thank you for making it available here.
I am so impressed by the achievements of those ordinary people... and disappointed for their ultimate idiocy. Shrewdness and experience on leadership should make some difference. All in all, respect and admiration, but please, let's be better organized and more effective next time. Fascinating doc, really, thank you for sharing!
At 5.36 Robinson mixes up his tenses- it's a common mistake, though one I'm surprised to see slip past these particular programme- makers. He says " What we know about Thomas Baker was that he was brave". He should have said " What we know about Thomas Baker IS that he was brave".
i live in ongar in essex and brentwood is 10 minutes from there, amazing that such a hugely significant event in history all started there and that my home county played such a big part in it! Go Essex! Also im amazed that Tony Robinson is from Brentwood! I never knew. Thanks for uploading, this was great to watch!
Very interesting programme. The sites of the massacres and the birth places of the rebel leaders are all easy to visit in Essex and Suffolk. Much of the Billericay woodland survives, and medieval Manningtree, Colchester, Sudbury and Chelmsford are still to be found.
Matthew McVeagh Manningtree, Sudbury and Coggershall are still fine towns. Chelmsford lost some of its charm in WW2 bombing (targeting the Marconi factory), and most of what remained was bulldozed in the 1960s. You can still see some of medieval Chelmsford on Moulsham St though. Colchester is a bit of a crap town, but it still has lots of fragments of its history- good Anglo-Saxon and medieval churches, the Roman walls, and the castle, now a museum, built on the vaults of the Roman temple of Augustus. Unfortunately, your assessment of the "TOWIE type" is true- the average Essex youth is, in my experience, a spineless, preening urbanite, interested in little more than putting a noisy exhaust on his car and spending his dole money on a new diamond stud earring to impress his mates down at the local Wetherspoons.
Tom Nutts Thanks. A shame about the Essex boy/girl phenomenon; one of the things I take from the Peasants' Revolt is that this was a time when the working class of the south-east took a leading role in the country in standing up for their interests. Apart from some parts of London, I don't see that now, instead we'd associate that more with the North. However I'd definitely want to visit Colchester if I'm ever in that area, a historic place since Boudicca's time.
Matthew McVeagh Colchester is well worth a visit- as you say, it has been an important historical site since before the Roman invasion, and it played an important role in the Civil War, and then in the wool trade up to as late as the 18th century. A visit to Colchester could easily be combined with a saunter round the Dedham Vale and Flatford, if you're interested in Constable. What you say about the working classes of the south-east is true- East Anglia has been a hotbed of resistance throughout history: from Boudicca's fight against the Romans, the fight against the Vikings by Brythnoth and the Essex army at Maldon, the last Saxon resistance against William of Normandy by Hereward the Wake at Ely, the raising of Kett's Rebellion on Mousehold Heath, or the mustering of Mary Tudor's forces at Framlingham before marching on London during Lady Jane Grey's ill-fated reign and Queen Elizabeth's "Tilbury Speech" and launch of the fleet to engage the Spanish Armada- the people of East Anglia have settled England's fate on many occasions, and there are many sites which should be sacred ground to Englishmen. When you compare the modern peacocking Essex wideboy against the Fen Tiger who existed still just within living memory, the mind boggles.
+TheFashionbugs a cunning plan so cunning it will out fox a fox who happens to be a professor of cunning plans, currently teaching at Oxford in their Cunning Plan Department.
I love the fact the peasants chose 'panic over petard' as their psychological weapon of choice: there was no need to blow up castle walls; you just sent word ahead that you would kill all who resisted you and 'bob's your uncle'--all gates were opened to you without a fight.
as a kid we would go for 8 hour horse back rides up in the mountains of oregon.. after that much time in the saddle you every muscle in your body is sore.. riding horses is great exercises.. with out even doing anything... i cant ride any more because my bad leg but i sure miss it.. its very relaxing horse back riding in the mountains.. fresh air.. and you always see animals you normally would not if you were just walking as the animals usually smell the horse not you.. so you walk up on wild game feet from you some times. heh.. then they realize hey something aint right then run off. rock on.
We will. Don't worry. We will. We'll be forced to do so. They're at it again like nothing ever happened, and the next crash... only way to clean the system is to make them vanish.
Sedentary people of today are not in any position to judge how far people of hundreds of years ago could have walked or ridden, or how difficult it would have been for them to do so. These people walked more in a day than most people in first world nations walk in a week, roughly speaking.
Just got back from 2 weeks in Malta. The Knights Hospitaller didn't move to Malta until 1530. They were still in Rhodes. The argument is still correct in theory, the profits just went to Rhodes.
Very well presented. I do have a question: what was happening in the other parts of England? Were there similar uprisings in the north and west or did the revolt remain an event limited to the southeast and east?
Lots of new detail - the accounts of the revolt I've heard before seem suspiciously simplified, even the sympathetic ones. So glad this doc was made, should be compulsory for British people.
An intriguing and romantic interpretation of this historical event is presented in the book "Born In Blood" by John J. Robinson. He was not, so far as I know, related to Sir Tony Robinson.
+Eric Taylor - Skulls typically retain teeth after death. Post mortem damage, or decay over time could potentially have caused the teeth to separate from the jaws. Good question.
Jefferdaughter But for how long. The teeth are not connected directly to the bone. They are attached via tendons. This lets the teeth move a bit in the socket. As the skull ages the tendon degrades and eventually the teeth just fall out, but the bones look as if the teeth were gone quite a while before the skull's owner lost his head. Of course there are not many 800 year old skills about to compare it too.
+Eric Taylor teeth can stay on the head for an uncountable amount of time and if ask why? becuase those tendons you mentioned dont just deteriorate they harden which is why its called roots. there have been multiple skulls before 800 years maybe 1000 years and they still have teeh not all of them but close to that same number.
Tony Robinson resigns from the labour party: So you got the message at last tony did you? , Now go and join the new Peasants revolt in the brexit party that way you can practice what you preach at last .
In the early part of this video doubt was expressed that these people could travel so far in such a short time. Let us not forget that these peasants were not like we are today, they didn't sit around most of the day, they were robust and very active. I have no doubt that some of them actually ran that distance with little ill effect.
I saw somewhere that peasants rode pony-like horses. The thoroughbred horses were more for lords and nobles (like Ferraris). The icelandic types were more like the ones peasants would have (like Honda Civics).
why can't people just enjoy the free programs without all the political &/or racial commentary? if I wanted to see people insulting each other over historical ideology I would enroll in college courses. the point is to learn from the past, not spout off ignorant comments, although I did enjoy the intelligent discourse
Because what’s the point of learning from history if we are not actually learning from history. Things haven’t changed and history is repeating itself because all we want is entertainment. Everyone has the right to speak freely on these platforms. I don’t agree with everyone but if you want to know why people are getting political as you say....for the simple fact that these problems still plague us today and people are waking up.
When Baldrick asked for the day off in Blackadder: The Afternoon off? who do you think you are Walt Tyler? you can have the afternoon off when you die, not before.
Because the time that England did become a republic (in 1649), they realized that it was so much more ghastly. Oliver Cromwell was more corrupt than any English king ever. Upon his death in 1658, Cromwell's son followed him as Lord Protector of England and was very soon forced to resign (by the people) and the monarchy was restored in 1660.
I'm half-way through watching this interesting documentary and note its emphasis seems to be on the poll tax. The poll tax was clearly the immediate cause of the rebellion as the poll tax was affecting everyone at about the same time, but I wonder if there would have been a rebellion at all if it hadn't been for a generation of serfs resentful because they couldn't better themselves. Their forebears would have felt quite settled, even though forced to stay put, as they would have known they'd be no better off elsewhere. Interesting that bakers and other tradespeople, as well as peasants, were serfs tied to a place - I hadn't realised that. Wasn't there a rise of a wealthy merchant class about this time? The City of London certainly seems to have been important. No wonder people wanted to throw off serfdom!
The British people of the follow on centuries really did not do honor to these individuals due to the clinging onto the changing monarchies that they allowed to reign over them. Conservatism is Britain's real weakness.
Magna Carta guaranteed the rights of the aristocracy who at the time were all Normans, often related to a British or continental royal family so it was just another part of the never ending power struggle between these people, any benefits to other English people was coincidental and more symbolic in how it was used by later generations (like the American Founding Fathers). It was being abused before the ink dried too.
This film is topical and has no depth as to why the Peasants Revolt started, it was in fact the great Black Death plague 1347 that helped give this revolution its momentum, it created a huge shortage of labour all over the British Isles and Europe, it gave rise to the middle class and forced the nobles to share their power with others of lesser nobility like merchants. It also allowed the serfs to demand higher wages and choose which Lord they worked for due to shortage of farm labour to harvest crops, in Britain it signalled the start of the end to the feudal system. These days democratic governments allow the people to have just enough employment, freedom, money, food, property and chattels to keep us from rebelling. But they still try and disarm and control via the news media, spying laws, and with fluoride in your drinking water. Nothing has changed really.
There is a theory that the surviving Templars helped with the organization. The Hospitallers had been given all the Templar property when they were outlawed. The attacks on the Hospitaller estates are believed to be the proof.
Amestris The Book's theory claimed it was simply the fact the Hospitallers had acquired Templar property, from the King. It was the organization of the Revolt, that impressed the author. Coordinated revolts across huge areas in an age before radio, telegraph, even public mail. All messages were carried by hand. But one of the main constraints the peasants complained of was, freedom of movement, or lack of it. So how did they communicate? Or was it spontaneous? The Hand of God? Or what?
Fascinating stuff, but I've always been confused as to why it's referred to as the peasants' revolt when the main ones involved were were serfs. Anyone out there know why?
600 years on and the taxman still chucks their weight around lol. We don't do revolutions in Britain. While the lower orders have clamoured for, and gained, reforms of Parliament I think I'm right in saying that this is the closest to revolution that Britain ever got. Even when half of Europe, France especially, was undergoing it's horrific bloodletting in the 18th and 19th Centuries there was little interest in Britain. I find that quite interesting.
This is the principle behind the 2nd amendment. An armed citizenry is much more difficult to subdue or subjugate. When they faced the king with comparable weaponry - he was forced to deal with them.
+thedudepdx 1. You don't have weapons comparable to what the government possesses. 2. Did you miss the part where all the leading rebels got hung, drawn and quartered? Yeah, he dealt with them all right.
There is a big difference between 10 guys with pitchforks vs. mounted armored knight and 10 guys with AR-15s vs. main battle tank, over the horizon missiles or high flying drone. Knights still had to approach to arms length to attack, archers could not wear heavy armor. Today I can take out someone in Afghanistan while still sipping the latte I got on my way into the office.
True, but the original point was that the second amendment permitted you to take on the government. Hiding in caves, not using traceable technology to avoid detection etc. is not taking on the government, that is being a fugitive. The Taliban will not take over the country until the US pulls out. And the US won't pull out until we decide to go. Same thing would happen to 2nd amendment people if they tried to take on Govt. in US. The simple fact is you can not have a stand up fight with the US Military unless you have access to technology similar to what they have. And, no matter how extensive your gun collection is, it will not beat a B-52 strike, or even a light armored vehicle. You MIGHT penetrate an APC with a .50 caliber if you have one. But you will not get many shots off before the wrath of god comes down on you.
That 'wrath of god' was intended in the 'giant storm of stuff that will kill you and against which you have no hope of victory' sense of the phrase, not as a reference to any specific deity.
I'm wondering how peasants got hold of swords and armour. As far as I'm aware, serfs weren't allowed to carry swords. I assume they picked up a great deal of weapons on their way to London. I was just wondering because in the illumination of the king talking to the rebels from his barge they are all wearing armour, maybe this is just to show their military might I'm not too sure.
There is not a "bad time last for 100 years..." I would like to know if something change after this peasant revolt whether positive or negative. The only things I think about this is probably the surviving peasant learned their own strength. Probably they did not get anything from the King or their landlords, only more hardship and taxes.
+Ivanoe Cubillos This was one of the most significant uprisings in medieval Europe, and one of the keystones for the formation of the middle class; the abolishment of taxation without representation; and the rise of democracy. No, Wat and his gang did not succeed, but they opened the eyes, hearts and minds of the serf populaces worldwide (at least Europe wide).
The people's problem was stopping without completely erasing the power, and having a replacement. The foundation any nation is built upon will always be the lower class! and if. a foundation crumbles! the whole building cannot stand. the term upper crust! came from the wealth eating the good bread on top, and feeding the char on the bottom to the help.
There are all kinds of "poll taxes", where the poor end up paying more. Sales tax is an example. Because the rich save more sales tax is regressive. Any fee like for a drivers license cost the lower income people more as a percent of income.
Have you seen modern marathon runners? Most of them could make this journey on foot. especially if you had peasants who were used to walking and running everywhere their whole life.
It does have certain areas that may be seen as residual to this revolt in todays world, one stands out more than all the rest. Not so many years ago in Gt. Briton, there was another move made by a government to introduce the very same tax. Todays people should in fact hang their heads in shame because this time, despite being in a much stronger position to have this overturned and the historical facts show that tney did not have the education or the will as individuals to question or stop this from being implimented, showing that the age of being prepared to stand up for some rights has faded into non existance. There are today many cases where should the people stand tall and be prepared to do something for themselves has long gone. Even the smallest of things like areas of their faith, now not only comes under attack but is allowed to come under attack even though the outcome of same is going to effect the population for ever. Today, although the people are usually aware that they are being lied to beyond belief and there ability to live a life in peace and comfort is now only a dream, it is only a dream because they have allowed it to happen. Todays world is seeing the open assasination of populations before their eyes, and also in the full knowledge that they are next, AND STILL DO NOTHING. I am getting on in years now but can say will all truthfulness that I am still willing to die for what I know to be fair and just, after all one can only die once so why not make it count for something, this is in no way to grab the spotlight, the very last thing I would want to happen, but being prepared to do it for a better life for the young or at least to die in the knowledge that you do it for a reason is important. From what I have seen, these things that we all feel descusted about, that go on day and night , are only going on because WE allow iit to happen. Those people really did put the lives on the line loo,ing for betterment of their own situation but for those who follow.. History will recall just how much we sat on our hands during our lives and those who profess a strenght in faith clearly tend to show that when push comes to shuv just how weak kneed we have become and it becomes very obvious just how quickly humans now tremble at the knees even when we know what we should be doing. In my life I may have gotten into trouble for being outspoken but I know that there is truth in what I have said, and the outcome only shows others who the real bad guys are.
Shame he never mentioned the major problem of the climate change,which was just finishing about 1350ish , years of bad summers and freezing winters,caused starvation which started the peasants getting pissed off ,many years before,enjoyed the programme though ,better than the history we were told many years ago at school,or perhaps that's all they knew,as history knowledge does move on.
a very good programme, but it annoyed me when he kept saying " hung drawn and quartered" it should be " hanged drawn and quartered"! because pictures are hung, people are hanged! simple English!
mandolingrass you are correct but that's only because people had bad grammar before. The poor (who language really lives inside) incorrectly said "hanged" and since they had more experience with criminals than pictures or signs a split developed. Also its important to remember that language is a living thing and really if one person says something and another person understands him correctly its a word. There really is no such thing as "correct" language. It's all based on what we all agree on. I think its exceedingly cool 😎.
The moral of the story is when you get a chance to rid yourself of your enemy - do so immediately. Do not trust anything he says promising you reforms in your favor.
The problem is we don't speak with one voice anymore. They fragmented us, divided us up Machiavellian style. They learnt from history centuries before we sheeple even began to wake up.
You know it's a legit medieval doc when you have Mike Loades involved.
Thank you for having this on your channel I learned quite a bit.
This documentary is amazing! Thanks for uploading, even 5 years later. Thanks!
I had never learnt about this revolt before I starting watching this multiple times thanks so much
I know this program was uploaded years ago, but nonetheless I wanted to take the time and say thank you for the upload! I really enjoyed this entire show, and actually learned some new things about Peasants' Revolt I didn't know before. CHEERS!🍺
The uploading part was easy though. All credit to the programme makers for producing such a great documentary. Thanks for the kind comments.
Marissa Hammer Same here.....I didn't even know the poll tax existed in 1311!!!!! I thought it was a thing from the 80s!
Programme even
There is an book called "Born in Blood" that talks about this peasant revolt and all the odd things that came up during it. Great read!
+SquareOne that's the one
I can't help but expect him to say "They had a cunning plan"
I've been watching the old Time Team episodes for a while now and I still can't disassociate him from Baldric.
I'm writing a book about a man who served in the Peasant's Revolt. Thank you so much for helping.
This is what my country needs right now, and I am one of many saying it.
Worth the viewing just to see Tony Robinson practicing with weapons :) Powerful documentary brought alive in a well articulated style.
Thanks for the upload.
Amazing documentary, I have much respect for Tony Robinson from watching Time Team as a kid and later Worst Jobs in History, though the former I preferred the most. I thank you for making it available here.
I think Robinson was well known as Baldrick in Blackadder before Time Team and Worst Jobs..
@@trollmeistergeneral3467 I only got into Blackadder many years later.
Nice series! Great job by Tony Robinson
I am so impressed by the achievements of those ordinary people... and disappointed for their ultimate idiocy. Shrewdness and experience on leadership should make some difference.
All in all, respect and admiration, but please, let's be better organized and more effective next time.
Fascinating doc, really, thank you for sharing!
and on the field of Blackheath
us Commons covered the Earth
more men than ever I did see
poor honest men from birth
Fantastic doc. Sir tony robinson !!!
the resolution of this production is not what is stated. Other than that I think Tony is 100% on top of history.
At 5.36 Robinson mixes up his tenses- it's a common mistake, though one I'm surprised to see slip past these particular programme- makers. He says " What we know about Thomas Baker was that he was brave". He should have said " What we know about Thomas Baker IS that he was brave".
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More like the pedant’s revolt.
iv been to sudbury walking there, but i will have to go back again to see that church where sudburys head is kept, that is amazing!
only a matter of time until the next one begins i just hope i'm around when it does!
How'd you vote on Brexit?
Great documentary! I learned many new things about the Peasant's Revolt!
i live in ongar in essex and brentwood is 10 minutes from there, amazing that such a hugely significant event in history all started there and that my home county played such a big part in it! Go Essex! Also im amazed that Tony Robinson is from Brentwood! I never knew. Thanks for uploading, this was great to watch!
Very interesting programme. The sites of the massacres and the birth places of the rebel leaders are all easy to visit in Essex and Suffolk. Much of the Billericay woodland survives, and medieval Manningtree, Colchester, Sudbury and Chelmsford are still to be found.
What are those places like now tho? Are they full of TOWIE types who wouldn't know a political movement if it savaged their arse?
Matthew McVeagh Manningtree, Sudbury and Coggershall are still fine towns. Chelmsford lost some of its charm in WW2 bombing (targeting the Marconi factory), and most of what remained was bulldozed in the 1960s. You can still see some of medieval Chelmsford on Moulsham St though. Colchester is a bit of a crap town, but it still has lots of fragments of its history- good Anglo-Saxon and medieval churches, the Roman walls, and the castle, now a museum, built on the vaults of the Roman temple of Augustus.
Unfortunately, your assessment of the "TOWIE type" is true- the average Essex youth is, in my experience, a spineless, preening urbanite, interested in little more than putting a noisy exhaust on his car and spending his dole money on a new diamond stud earring to impress his mates down at the local Wetherspoons.
Tom Nutts Thanks. A shame about the Essex boy/girl phenomenon; one of the things I take from the Peasants' Revolt is that this was a time when the working class of the south-east took a leading role in the country in standing up for their interests. Apart from some parts of London, I don't see that now, instead we'd associate that more with the North.
However I'd definitely want to visit Colchester if I'm ever in that area, a historic place since Boudicca's time.
Matthew McVeagh Colchester is well worth a visit- as you say, it has been an important historical site since before the Roman invasion, and it played an important role in the Civil War, and then in the wool trade up to as late as the 18th century. A visit to Colchester could easily be combined with a saunter round the Dedham Vale and Flatford, if you're interested in Constable.
What you say about the working classes of the south-east is true- East Anglia has been a hotbed of resistance throughout history: from Boudicca's fight against the Romans, the fight against the Vikings by Brythnoth and the Essex army at Maldon, the last Saxon resistance against William of Normandy by Hereward the Wake at Ely, the raising of Kett's Rebellion on Mousehold Heath, or the mustering of Mary Tudor's forces at Framlingham before marching on London during Lady Jane Grey's ill-fated reign and Queen Elizabeth's "Tilbury Speech" and launch of the fleet to engage the Spanish Armada- the people of East Anglia have settled England's fate on many occasions, and there are many sites which should be sacred ground to Englishmen.
When you compare the modern peacocking Essex wideboy against the Fen Tiger who existed still just within living memory, the mind boggles.
I'm still stuck thinking he is Baldrick.
+TheFashionbugs a cunning plan so cunning it will out fox a fox who happens to be a professor of cunning plans, currently teaching at Oxford in their Cunning Plan Department.
"I have a plan so cunning you could shave with it."
I love the fact the peasants chose 'panic over petard' as their psychological weapon of choice: there was no need to blow up castle walls; you just sent word ahead that you would kill all who resisted you and 'bob's your uncle'--all gates were opened to you without a fight.
But than they wouldn’t be peasants.
"The peasants are revolting sire" "At last, we agree on something"
That's pretty funny. Is it a direct quote from somewhere? I didn't watch the whole video.
According to google, it's a reference to "History of the World, part 1" by Mel Brooks.
haha chicken run ;)
Count de Money:
"It is said that the people are revolting."
King Louis:
"You said it! They stink on ice!"
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We modern-day peasants urgently now need a revolt that will succeed.
why?
martpast1
We are slaves to the bankers and Aristocrats and frankly im a little bored of it.
hablerz can u offer anything better?
slaves had nothing and were forced to work anytime
martpast1
I can almost imagine you saying this to me in a cotton mill in 1820 as we completed a 13 hr shift.
hablerz they were surfs then, still not slaves.
read about the ancient Rome.
really enjoyed this vid, thanks for sharing
" help, help, I'm being repressed!!!!"
"Bloody peasant!"
it only took three years fro someone to get that )
Just checking to see if you are still alive :-) and wondering where your hideout is !
i have a cunning plan
True power derives from a mandate of the masses, not from some fercical aquatic ceremony!
as a kid we would go for 8 hour horse back rides up in the mountains of oregon.. after that much time in the saddle you every muscle in your body is sore.. riding horses is great exercises.. with out even doing anything... i cant ride any more because my bad leg but i sure miss it.. its very relaxing horse back riding in the mountains.. fresh air.. and you always see animals you normally would not if you were just walking as the animals usually smell the horse not you.. so you walk up on wild game feet from you some times. heh.. then they realize hey something aint right then run off. rock on.
they cut the lawyers heads off............. wish we could do the same to the bankers today :D
:)
Hear, hear!
Back to hell, Adolph.
We will.
Don't worry. We will.
We'll be forced to do so. They're at it again like nothing ever happened, and the next crash... only way to clean the system is to make them vanish.
"The first thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers."
- 2 Henry VI, iv, 2, 70
Tony Robinson is my fav all time fav historian love his works because he teaches you real history the kinda shit schools dont teach you
Sedentary people of today are not in any position to judge how far people of hundreds of years ago could have walked or ridden, or how difficult it would have been for them to do so. These people walked more in a day than most people in first world nations walk in a week, roughly speaking.
Who else starts documentaries now thinking “Please be Tony Robinson please be Tony Robinson!!!”
Marvellous programme
when he's out of his Baldrick gear, Tony is quite handsome.
Just got back from 2 weeks in Malta. The Knights Hospitaller didn't move to Malta until 1530. They were still in Rhodes. The argument is still correct in theory, the profits just went to Rhodes.
RIP to Wat Tyler and the people of the Peasants Revolt
Very well presented. I do have a question: what was happening in the other parts of England? Were there similar uprisings in the north and west or did the revolt remain an event limited to the southeast and east?
Lots of new detail - the accounts of the revolt I've heard before seem suspiciously simplified, even the sympathetic ones. So glad this doc was made, should be compulsory for British people.
An intriguing and romantic interpretation of this historical event is presented in the book "Born In Blood" by John J. Robinson. He was not, so far as I know, related to Sir Tony Robinson.
1:38:00 How is he allowed to handle the head bare handed? Also, did he lose his teeth in life, or did they fall out after he died?
+Eric Taylor - Skulls typically retain teeth after death. Post mortem damage, or decay over time could potentially have caused the teeth to separate from the jaws. Good question.
Jefferdaughter
But for how long. The teeth are not connected directly to the bone. They are attached via tendons. This lets the teeth move a bit in the socket. As the skull ages the tendon degrades and eventually the teeth just fall out, but the bones look as if the teeth were gone quite a while before the skull's owner lost his head.
Of course there are not many 800 year old skills about to compare it too.
+Eric Taylor teeth can stay on the head for an uncountable amount of time and if ask why? becuase those tendons you mentioned dont just deteriorate they harden which is why its called roots. there have been multiple skulls before 800 years maybe 1000 years and they still have teeh not all of them but close to that same number.
Tony Robinson resigns from the labour party:
So you got the message at last tony did you? , Now go and join the new Peasants revolt in the brexit party that way you can practice what you preach at last .
In the early part of this video doubt was expressed that these people could travel so far in such a short time. Let us not forget that these peasants were not like we are today, they didn't sit around most of the day, they were robust and very active. I have no doubt that some of them actually ran that distance with little ill effect.
The Peasants are revolting! I couldn't agree more sir!
I saw somewhere that peasants rode pony-like horses. The thoroughbred horses were more for lords and nobles (like Ferraris). The icelandic types were more like the ones peasants would have (like Honda Civics).
Extremely interesting documentary..
Great documentary for the most part but what did stopping at a roadside food stand have to do with the Peasant's Revolt?
+IMInnocent07 He was hungry and the crew members had eaten up all the supplies in the trailer.
I'm pretty sure that In 1381 the capital of the Knights Hospitaler was in Rhodes not Malta
why can't people just enjoy the free programs without all the political &/or racial commentary? if I wanted to see people insulting each other over historical ideology I would enroll in college courses. the point is to learn from the past, not spout off ignorant comments, although I did enjoy the intelligent discourse
Go to bloody hell Jen!
Trump is literally Hitler, so let's give him more laws to enforce.
Because what’s the point of learning from history if we are not actually learning from history. Things haven’t changed and history is repeating itself because all we want is entertainment. Everyone has the right to speak freely on these platforms. I don’t agree with everyone but if you want to know why people are getting political as you say....for the simple fact that these problems still plague us today and people are waking up.
@@pardwayne you are a dumpster fire.
When Baldrick asked for the day off in Blackadder:
The Afternoon off? who do you think you are Walt Tyler? you can have the afternoon off when you die, not before.
As a teenager I cycled from Canterbury to London (Blackheath) in a day.
After watching. Haven't you just got to ask yourself. Why are these people still in charge?
Because the time that England did become a republic (in 1649), they realized that it was so much more ghastly. Oliver Cromwell was more corrupt than any English king ever. Upon his death in 1658, Cromwell's son followed him as Lord Protector of England and was very soon forced to resign (by the people) and the monarchy was restored in 1660.
Wat Tyler should get his own holiday.
+coyotemojo i agree Wat Tyler Monday fuck your commerce...
coyotemojo yeah they could call it "We nearly got our rights but Tyler fucked it all up Day"...!
Get the whole story about the British Monarchy at
www.thehiddenkingofengland.com
1.20 Not a stick, a staff which was well known to use at this time
What type of horse was the black one?
I'm half-way through watching this interesting documentary and note its emphasis seems to be on the poll tax. The poll tax was clearly the immediate cause of the rebellion as the poll tax was affecting everyone at about the same time, but I wonder if there would have been a rebellion at all if it hadn't been for a generation of serfs resentful because they couldn't better themselves. Their forebears would have felt quite settled, even though forced to stay put, as they would have known they'd be no better off elsewhere.
Interesting that bakers and other tradespeople, as well as peasants, were serfs tied to a place - I hadn't realised that. Wasn't there a rise of a wealthy merchant class about this time? The City of London certainly seems to have been important. No wonder people wanted to throw off serfdom!
The colonists apparently were not the first British subjects to stick a thumb in the royal eyes. Jolly good, mates!
+MrStig691 yeh nah
Idiot yourself, MrStig691. The term "subjects" is correct for the time. It is also correct in its political use.
The English had already beheaded the King a century before the colonists started to grumble.
Yes, that's the point Jim Rathbun is making.
No, we're subjects.
The British people of the follow on centuries really did not do honor to these individuals due to the clinging onto the changing monarchies that they allowed to reign over them. Conservatism is Britain's real weakness.
You're a moron, Conservatism is what built the British Empire!! It's socialism that the real weakness, coming from a marine I'd expect better, fool!
+Angry Hedonist Demon Leftism is a mental disorder, hence th red scares in my country and the putting down of revolts in yours! Fool
+Angry Hedonist Demon Especially coming from a name like angry hedonist demon, yeah lefty, you are fubar!
WRONG, as magna carta an other laws ended royal power centuries ago !
this guy knows nothing about English history!
Magna Carta guaranteed the rights of the aristocracy who at the time were all Normans, often related to a British or continental royal family so it was just another part of the never ending power struggle between these people, any benefits to other English people was coincidental and more symbolic in how it was used by later generations (like the American Founding Fathers). It was being abused before the ink dried too.
This film is topical and has no depth as to why the Peasants Revolt started, it was in fact the great Black Death plague 1347 that helped give this revolution its momentum, it created a huge shortage of labour all over the British Isles and Europe, it gave rise to the middle class and forced the nobles to share their power with others of lesser nobility like merchants.
It also allowed the serfs to demand higher wages and choose which Lord they worked for due to shortage of farm labour to harvest crops, in Britain it signalled the start of the end to the feudal system.
These days democratic governments allow the people to have just enough employment, freedom, money, food, property and chattels to keep us from rebelling. But they still try and disarm and control via the news media, spying laws, and with fluoride in your drinking water. Nothing has changed really.
36:00 What about the coconuts?
need something like that to happen here we have carbon tax and goods services tax new car tax stamp duty tax electricity tax and the list goes on
1:25:11 Sheesh that's a bit rough there Tony haha even in armor you might whack an chainmailed elbow, still hurts
What exactly is a "fortnight" (if I spelled that right). We don't use that term in the U.S. but I keep hearing it in these BBC productions.
@spiritwolf a twelfth night is two weeks I believe.
+XtreamBrands oops @spiritbear12 sorry
XtreamBrands
That's an odd term for 2 weeks.
It's a shortened form of "fourteen nights."
WhiteCamry
Thank you
The revolt broke out in Essex when John Bampton arrived to investigate evasion of the poll tax
There is a theory that the surviving Templars helped with the organization. The Hospitallers had been given all the Templar property when they were outlawed. The attacks on the Hospitaller estates are believed to be the proof.
geezzerboy ... Why? Because John of Gaunt was the great-grandson of the man who had their last Grand Master burnt at the stake?
Amestris The Book's theory claimed it was simply the fact the Hospitallers had acquired Templar property, from the King. It was the organization of the Revolt, that impressed the author. Coordinated revolts across huge areas in an age before radio, telegraph, even public mail. All messages were carried by hand. But one of the main constraints the peasants complained of was, freedom of movement, or lack of it. So how did they communicate? Or was it spontaneous? The Hand of God? Or what?
Fascinating stuff, but I've always been confused as to why it's referred to as the peasants' revolt when the main ones involved were were serfs. Anyone out there know why?
Because most people don't know what a serf is so it would never catch
Reminds me of a cartoon I saw.A man is telling the king "The peasants are revolting!!!"The king replied "They certainly are"
Lol. Tony ends every segment with a new way of saying, “now let’s go drink”.
I wonder whether the insult "cur" has any link to Abel Kerr.
+CowLunch I don't think so - the term originally referred to an English cattle dog.
Great show... and Mike Loades has a big horse...
Wagons? Peasants on wagons. Anyone bothered to consider that 14th Century England DID have the wheel in which to move people.
3:23 Sweet ride Tony :D
600 years on and the taxman still chucks their weight around lol. We don't do revolutions in Britain. While the lower orders have clamoured for, and gained, reforms of Parliament I think I'm right in saying that this is the closest to revolution that Britain ever got. Even when half of Europe, France especially, was undergoing it's horrific bloodletting in the 18th and 19th Centuries there was little interest in Britain. I find that quite interesting.
John of Gaunt "The peasants' are revolting".
Richard ii "You're not the most pleasing to the eye either".
This is the principle behind the 2nd amendment. An armed citizenry is much more difficult to subdue or subjugate. When they faced the king with comparable weaponry - he was forced to deal with them.
+thedudepdx
1. You don't have weapons comparable to what the government possesses.
2. Did you miss the part where all the leading rebels got hung, drawn and quartered? Yeah, he dealt with them all right.
There is a big difference between 10 guys with pitchforks vs. mounted armored knight and 10 guys with AR-15s vs. main battle tank, over the horizon missiles or high flying drone.
Knights still had to approach to arms length to attack, archers could not wear heavy armor.
Today I can take out someone in Afghanistan while still sipping the latte I got on my way into the office.
True, but the original point was that the second amendment permitted you to take on the government.
Hiding in caves, not using traceable technology to avoid detection etc. is not taking on the government, that is being a fugitive.
The Taliban will not take over the country until the US pulls out. And the US won't pull out until we decide to go. Same thing would happen to 2nd amendment people if they tried to take on Govt. in US.
The simple fact is you can not have a stand up fight with the US Military unless you have access to technology similar to what they have. And, no matter how extensive your gun collection is, it will not beat a B-52 strike, or even a light armored vehicle. You MIGHT penetrate an APC with a .50 caliber if you have one. But you will not get many shots off before the wrath of god comes down on you.
Leave "god" out of it. Unless you want to perpetuate the war that has been going on for centuries.
Fuck the US
That 'wrath of god' was intended in the 'giant storm of stuff that will kill you and against which you have no hope of victory' sense of the phrase, not as a reference to any specific deity.
Note to future revolutionaries; Do not appoint one person to lead you. All for one and one for all
37 minutes- "should I prepare the guest room for Mr cockup?" lmao
Tony rocks!
I'm wondering how peasants got hold of swords and armour. As far as I'm aware, serfs weren't allowed to carry swords. I assume they picked up a great deal of weapons on their way to London. I was just wondering because in the illumination of the king talking to the rebels from his barge they are all wearing armour, maybe this is just to show their military might I'm not too sure.
"No more half-measures Walter..."
34:40 British humour, we Germans love it!
There is not a "bad time last for 100 years..." I would like to know if something change after this peasant revolt whether positive or negative. The only things I think about this is probably the surviving peasant learned their own strength. Probably they did not get anything from the King or their landlords, only more hardship and taxes.
+Ivanoe Cubillos
This was one of the most significant uprisings in medieval Europe, and one of the keystones for the formation of the middle class; the abolishment of taxation without representation; and the rise of democracy. No, Wat and his gang did not succeed, but they opened the eyes, hearts and minds of the serf populaces worldwide (at least Europe wide).
+Le Kre Thanks for your information.
The people's problem was stopping without completely erasing the power, and having a replacement. The foundation any nation is built upon will always be the lower class! and if. a foundation crumbles! the whole building cannot stand. the term upper crust! came from the wealth eating the good bread on top, and feeding the char on the bottom to the help.
with the little chin beard i realized Tony was the sheriff of Nottingham from maid Marian and her merry men XD
Tony kept implying that guy didn't have good horses.
There are all kinds of "poll taxes", where the poor end up paying more. Sales tax is an example. Because the rich save more sales tax is regressive. Any fee like for a drivers license cost the lower income people more as a percent of income.
love tim robinson...........makes HISTORY cool
Have you seen modern marathon runners? Most of them could make this journey on foot. especially if you had peasants who were used to walking and running everywhere their whole life.
Just came here from World Without End.
I went in that church many times.
It does have certain areas that may be seen as residual to this revolt in todays world, one stands out more than all the rest.
Not so many years ago in Gt. Briton, there was another move made by a government to introduce the very same tax.
Todays people should in fact hang their heads in shame because this time, despite being in a much stronger position to have this overturned and the historical facts show that tney did not have the education or the will as individuals to question or stop this from being implimented, showing that the age of being prepared to stand up for some rights has faded into non existance.
There are today many cases where should the people stand tall and be prepared to do something for themselves has long gone.
Even the smallest of things like areas of their faith, now not only comes under attack but is allowed to come under attack even though the outcome of same is going to effect the population for ever.
Today, although the people are usually aware that they are being lied to beyond belief and there ability to live a life in peace and comfort is now only a dream, it is only a dream because they have allowed it to happen.
Todays world is seeing the open assasination of populations before their eyes, and also in the full knowledge that they are next, AND STILL DO NOTHING.
I am getting on in years now but can say will all truthfulness that I am still willing to die for what I know to be fair and just, after all one can only die once so why not make it count for something, this is in no way to grab the spotlight, the very last thing I would want to happen, but being prepared to do it for a better life for the young or at least to die in the knowledge that you do it for a reason is important.
From what I have seen, these things that we all feel descusted about, that go on day and night , are only going on because WE allow iit to happen.
Those people really did put the lives on the line loo,ing for betterment of their own situation but for those who follow..
History will recall just how much we sat on our hands during our lives and those who profess a strenght in faith clearly tend to show that when push comes to shuv just how weak kneed we have become and it becomes very obvious just how quickly humans now tremble at the knees even when we know what we should be doing.
In my life I may have gotten into trouble for being outspoken but
I know that there is truth in what I have said, and the outcome only shows others who the real bad guys are.
Those little chin whiskers are very interesting indeed , nice to get into character what....👏
Crush the riff raff!
Sire, the peasants are revolting!
+David Prosser To quote the Wizard of Id. "Yes they are...."
You like that cartoon too. It was often excellent.
+David Prosser "Czar Nicholas, the communists are revolting"
"Bolsheviks"
"No, I swear it's true."
I'll say, they stink on ice!
Shame he never mentioned the major problem of the climate change,which was just finishing about 1350ish , years of bad summers and freezing winters,caused starvation which started the peasants getting pissed off ,many years before,enjoyed the programme though ,better than the history we were told many years ago at school,or perhaps that's all they knew,as history knowledge does move on.
1:40:30 "..we're not talking about brain dead yokels like something out of a Monty Python film..." or an episode of Blackadder eh Tony ;-)
Andy Hawkins Can't blame him, Baldrick did got his moments of cunning ideas... >_
a very good programme, but it annoyed me when he kept saying " hung drawn and quartered" it should be " hanged drawn and quartered"! because pictures are hung, people are hanged! simple English!
mandolingrass you are correct but that's only because people had bad grammar before. The poor (who language really lives inside) incorrectly said "hanged" and since they had more experience with criminals than pictures or signs a split developed. Also its important to remember that language is a living thing and really if one person says something and another person understands him correctly its a word. There really is no such thing as "correct" language. It's all based on what we all agree on. I think its exceedingly cool 😎.
1:26:00 Hodor