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1381: The Year of the Peasants' Revolt | Juliet Barker
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Juliet Barker provides an account of the first great popular uprising in England and a fascinating study of medieval life in English towns and countryside. She tells how and why an unlikely group of ordinary men and women from every corner of England united in armed rebellion against church and state to demand a radical political agenda.
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I always enjoy Barker's books because I geek out over historiographical controversies and she does such a good job of evaluating every side of a historical question and laying out all the evidence. Here she argues that during the Peasants' Revolt John Ball never actually gave the famed Blackheath speech that is the centerpiece of most accounts of the uprising.