Matt Lewis

The People of the Peasants’ Revolt

Saturday 4 October
Castle Hill Baptist Church
4.30pm

1381: England was almost changed forever. A movement of the people, now remembered as The Peasants’ Revolt, marched on London. They pledged loyalty to the young King Richard II, who took control and gave the people what they wanted. But matters quickly slipped out of the King’s hands and the people were thwarted by the very nobles and bureaucrats they had come to protest against: bloodshed and betrayal saw defeat snatched from the jaws of victory.

What did this uprising seek to achieve? How did it come so close to changing the very fabric of medieval England? And how did it all go so wrong? 

Historian and podcaster Matt Lewis will seek to answer these questions and introduce some of the real people – many of whom were far from peasants – who took part in England’s first well documented popular uprising.

 

Tickets £15.00
includes refreshments

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