11 Facts About Peasants' Revolt

Peasants' Revolt, named Wat Tyler's Rebellion or the Great Rising, was a major uprising across large parts of England in 1381.

Peasants' Revolt was fed by the economic and social upheaval of the 14th century.

Peasants' Revolt travelled by boat down the River Thames to London the next day, taking up residence in the powerful fortress of the Tower of London for safety, where he was joined by his mother, Archbishop Sudbury, the Lord High Treasurer Sir Robert Hales, the Earls of Arundel, Salisbury and Warwick and several other senior nobles.

Peasants' Revolt declined to hand over any of his officials, apparently instead promising that he would personally implement any justice that was required.

Peasants' Revolt then spread north from Cambridge toward Ely, where the gaol was opened and the local Justice of the Peace executed.

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The rebels of the Peasant's Peasants' Revolt were represented by various writers since they did not represent themselves in historical records.

Peasants' Revolt had well-placed sources close to the revolt, but was inclined to elaborate the known facts with colourful stories.

The Peasants' Revolt has received more academic attention than any other medieval revolt, and this research has been interdisciplinary, involving historians, literary scholars and international collaboration.

Name "the Peasants' Revolt" emerged in the 18th and early 19th centuries, and its first recorded use by historians was in John Richard Green's Short History of the English People in 1874.

Peasants' Revolt formed the basis for the late 16th-century play, The Life and Death of Jack Straw, possibly written by George Peele and probably originally designed for production in the city's guild pageants.

The historian James Crossley argues that after the French Revolution, the Peasants' Revolt was seen more positively, especially among radicals and revolutionaries.