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How the Black Death Set the Stage for the Peasants’ Revolt

Raymond on August 23, 2026

Ink-wash painting of a half-empty medieval village with empty cottages and untended fields under a grey sky

A generation before the peasants marched on London, a plague killed nearly half of England — and in the empty fields it left behind, the survivors discovered a terrible new kind of power. This is how the Black Death made the Peasants’ Revolt possible.

The 1381 Peasants’ Revolt: The Complete Story of England’s Great Rising

Raymond on August 22, 2026

Ink-wash painting of a great medieval peasant host marching on a walled city during the 1381 Peasants' Revolt

The complete story of the 1381 Peasants’ Revolt — how plague, poll tax and a preacher’s question brought England’s poor to the gates of London, and why they lost the rebellion but won the argument.

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