{"id":15993,"date":"2022-07-10T13:32:54","date_gmt":"2022-07-10T11:32:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.historyextra.com\/?p=211183"},"modified":"2022-07-10T13:46:08","modified_gmt":"2022-07-10T11:46:08","slug":"the-peasants-revolt-everything-you-wanted-to-know","status":"publish","type":"rss_feed","link":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbchistory\/rss_feed\/the-peasants-revolt-everything-you-wanted-to-know\/","title":{"rendered":"The Peasants\u2019 Revolt: everything you wanted to know"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"rssexcerpt\"><\/p><p class=\"rssauthor\">By Spencer Mizen\n                \t\t<\/p><p class=\"rssbyline\">Published: Sunday, 10 July 2022 at 12:00 am<\/p><hr class=\"no-tts wp-block-separator\"\/><?xml version=\"1.0\" encoding=\"UTF-8\" standalone=\"yes\"?>\n<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><body><p>In 1381, thousands of men and women surged into London, attacking jails, burning down palaces, murdering the Archbishop of Canterbury and confronting the king. But what caused the <a href=\"&quot;https:\/\/www.historyextra.com\/period\/medieval\/your-guide-peasants-revolt-facts-timeline\/&quot;\">Peasants\u2019 Revolt<\/a>? Is it even accurate to describe the rebels as \u201cpeasants\u201d? Was Richard II sympathetic to their grievances? And how brutal was the authorities\u2019 response to the revolt? 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