Peasants' Revolt
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The Peasants' Revolt, also named Wat Tyler's Rebellion or the Great Rising, was a major uprising across large parts of England in 1381. The revolt had various causes, including the socio-economic and political tensions generated by the Black Death in the 1340s, the high taxes resulting from the conflict with France during the Hundred Years' War, and instability within the local leadership of London.
The boy-king Richard II meets the rebels on 14 June 1381, in a miniature from a 1470s copy of Jean Froissart's Chronicles.
English soldiers landing in Normandy, c. 1380–1400, during the Hundred Years' War
Peasant longbowmen at practice, from the Luttrell Psalter, c. 1320–1340
15th-century representation of the cleric John Ball encouraging the rebels; Wat Tyler is shown in red, front left
Kent
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Kent is a county in the South East England region, the closest county to continental Europe. It borders Essex across the entire estuary of the River Thames to the north; the French department of Pas-de-Calais across the Strait of Dover to the south-east; East Sussex to the south-west; Surrey to the west and Greater London to the north-west. The county town is Maidstone.
Image: White Cliffs of Dover, Kent
Image: Saint Thomas Becket (Samuel Caldwell, 1919) crop
An early mention of Kent in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle between 11th and 12th centuries
Title page of William Lambarde's Perambulation of Kent (completed in 1570 and published in 1576), a historical description of Kent and the first published county history