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— Understanding the past through primary sources, analysis, and debateAndrew Garfield plays a ploughman in The Uprising – but the real medieval rebels weren’t all peasants
A new Andrew Garfield film imagines the 1381 peasants' revolt as a story of the poorest rising up. Records show something messier: an MP, gentry and property-owning women among the rebels, and tax collectors who switched sides.
— via The Conversation — History, Adrian R Bell, Chair in the History of Finance and Associate Pro-Vice-Chancellor Research, Prosperity and Resilience, Henley Business School, University of Reading
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