#medieval england
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The Peasants' Revolt behind Andrew Garfield's new film
Paul Greengrass turned England's biggest popular uprising into a movie, and historians say the real 1381 is stranger than the script.
Vanity Fair · 4m
England's 19-year war over a broken promise
Henry I made his barons swear to crown his daughter. When he died they crowned her cousin instead, and England burned for nineteen years.
History Today · 4m
The Uprising: the 1381 revolt that never quite died
Paul Greengrass turns the Peasants' Revolt into one farmer's story, and asks what ordinary people are owed.
TIME · 4m