The Untold Story Of The 1381 Peasants Revolt | Peasants Revolt | Timeline

Tony Robinson explores the major uprising across large parts of England in 1381; it's origins, motives and aftermath.
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[@dangreene9846]

The twenty first century is not shaping up to be good either.

[@rpnvg]

There is just something so comfy about any historical documentary that is 15+ years old. I loved this.

[@giovannigiorgio3727]

If it was made today, it would have some BS narrative that all the peasants were black and being oppressed by evil white people.

[@SaroShow]

wat thinking the same... Do you know in wich year this was made?

[@kathycarlson7947]

same

[@AthelstanEngland]

Not woke

[@crashrr2993]

My father missed the last train from Maidstone to Canterbury on Christmas Eve. Undeterred, he walked... His journey started at about 7:30pm and he arrived in Canterbury at about 8:30am on Christmas Day. He was 72 years old and was carrying a suitcase. He said it was an amazing experience to finally walk the Pilgrims’ Way!

[@iiiiii8522]

Google maps said it would take just under 9hrs to walk it, which is normally really conservative, however I don't think it accounts for the fact that a distance that long would result in a slower walk speed overall (some breaks, fatigue etc). He is 72, however he was willing to give it a go and you didn't mention any health problems resulting from it, so I'd say his age isn't a huge deal. But he did take 13 hours.

[@ce5890]

@@iiiiii8522 and your point is?

[@iiiiii8522]

@@ce5890 I don't have a point other than adding some logistical information for more interest. Why do you assume I have some agenda, or that I'm disagreeing in some way?

[@ce5890]

@@iiiiii8522 That's how I read it , my apologies if I was wrong

[@OMGAnotherday]

Crashrr - Wow!

[@Spiritualtruth94]

I didn't fall in love with history until I was an adult because at my secondary school it was sooo boring and dull, Tony has been my go to for all his documentaries and Time Team too which I have watched for decades. Thank you Tony, you are a legend when it comes to English History!

[@Rosco-P.Coldchain]

Really I loved my high school history lessons and have always loved the subject from been a child..

[@mangoeater5624]

He reminds me of my history teacher he was really like him :)

[@user-ut7wz7mh2r]

I've seen comments similar to this on all of the history hit series videos, and you're right. If this is how school history was taught, students would be engrossed paying attention and learning much more. I leave these documentaries on in the background as I work or chill at home, and now truly understand and appreciate European history... 30 Years After High School history class!

[@washguy9577]

Wasn't it also a bakers place that started the great fire of 1666 ? Bakers are the history makers in England.

[@Groglor]

I got recommended this during the peasant truckers revolting against the establishment in Canada.

[@alexandersmall7380]

I love how when Tony enters the Cathedral of Canterbury he is shouting and completely oblivious to all the concerned faces.

[@popopopolo]

Yeah

[@dasffs]

I think he did for effect, to further act out the part where "PEOPLE were CONFUSED!" effective.

[@richardlahan7068]

He does seem a bit oblivious.

[@marc-andrebrunet5386]

🎯I agree my friend!

[@stevensvideos5918]

Yo mumma shouting in the cathedral

[@callumbyrne3692]

Tony Robinson is the only non Historian who got me in love with History. I also thank Time Team too. I could happily sit in a room with a cup of tea and listen to Tony talk about history for hours. Cheers Tony

[@sealyoness]

I've loved history since I was 16 and laid up with a broken leg. The basketball coach, aka History teacher, would come by 2x a week and allowed me to do 'outside research'. The books at school were so dull by comparison to our library collection!

[@KB4QAA]

CB: Tony isn't a historian. He has no advanced education. He is an actor.

[@callumbyrne3692]

@@KB4QAA that's why I said "Non Historian" meaning someone who hasn't studied the subject. Thank you for allowing me to help you. Good day !!

[@dinerouk]

Especially if you're a leftie, like Tony!

[@callumbyrne3692]

@@dinerouk what does that have to do with anything?

[@bulletsdodger]

Tony Robinson mentioned a couple of times 'what you would of learned at school'. This got me thinking back to my childhood. Well can you believe, between 1988 and 1992 at a secondary school in Milton Keynes where I had the misfortune of going, they didn't do history lessons or have any proper history teachers. They did humanities gcse which was taught appallingly, but no gcse history for the kids back then. I remember doing a little about castles in middle school, not very much at all. But all I can say is thank god for history programmes on tv, history books my parents had and Tony Robinson himself. 👍👏

[@perceblue3976]

A wonderful documentary. I was born in Dagenham, Essex and knew nothing about this historical event of my English history. Thank you Tony Robinson.

[@robertdore9592]

Proof if it were needed that the biggest lie is the one through omission. We've been lied to all of our lives.

[@Spiritualtruth94]

I lived in Dagenham for 16 years but grew up in Newham, I've always loved history and the history library there has some great pamphlets on the Essex Witch trials :)

[@maxwild1212]

Too many British people nowadays have been propagandized into uncritically believing that the monarchy (and the upper class in general) are inextricable from our national identity, and to be critical of (or even outright opposed to) them is unpatriotic. Let's not forget that events like this are as integral a part of our history as all the kings and queens.

[@maxwild1212]

@Celto Loco That's definitely not true, but it probably is true that there are far more English monarchists than Scottish.

[@cha2117]

They're German the connections were hidden during the war the Hanover line. they all intermarry don't let Meghan appearance fool you she's in there somewhere. Churchill and Diana were related. The family connection at Blenheim Palace Churchills home shows it.

[@aleisterlavey9716]

British Monarchy...the world's most expensive collective Hobby

[@devonseamoor]

@Max Wild. Lately, while I'm in the Netherlands since the pandemic started (I've lived almost 5 years in Devon, the S. West of England) I meet young English people in my town, that helped me to understand why many of the British people I've met are inhibited, and obedient to authority, without thinking for themselves. I'm still in touch with friends, mostly over 60 (I'm 71) and about the pandemic they usually say "I can't even begin to think that I would be able to find out and understand what that's all about, and therefore we'll have to just wait, and see how things work out" which is, to me, a Dutch warrior for justice, one of the best examples of complacency, a virus that moves through the veins of many of those overseas..

[@devonseamoor]

@@sirensynapse5603 You know, I think that reverence stems from the time England was an Empire, with many manufacturers in the industry, organisations abroad, travelling to and fro, with many riches arriving, and leaving, by sea. A plethora of great wealth was present, although, by means of the class system, poverty was huge as well. Charles Dickens wrote about it in great detail. I think that lower-class citizens were victims of mind-programming, made to believe and accept that to be born in a certain class, one had to live up to that status and accept such a life, saying that God and King or Queen knew best. And the Vicar and the Doctor follow on their heels. To this day, and I've met British people in 7 villages of rural Britain, during 4,5 years (I'm Dutch) I believe that the gullibility, and obedience with a bowed head and drooping shoulders, in a complacent mode of an often depressing daily life existence (walk through poor towns in the centre, and you'll see what I mean) is the self-fulfilling prophecy that keeps the BoJo's bullying and the Tories ruling, in Britain. A revolution from the bottom up might bring much-needed change.

[@ScunnyRhino]

I can just imagine it started with some little peasant say the immortal words - "I have a cunning plan".

[@brujeriadiosa]

[@stub2022]

Lord Hophead As cunning as a Fox who's just been made Processor of Cunning at Oxford?

[@Raz.C]

Lord Hophead You took the words right out of my keyboard!!

[@jackdaniels8552]

good one

[@s.31.l50]

But is it so cunning that if you put a tail on it it would be a weasel?

[@annlong1426]

It’s time for history to repeat itself because politicians never learn

[@JakeWitmer]

It's not that they never learn. In fact, sociopaths learn better than empaths. ...They just have profoundly different motivations.

[@robinm3524]

Tony Robinson never seems to disappoint... I've been watching time team for the past year and now and again I'll come across the documentary like this. I saw the one about Robin Hood and braveheart 👍

[@leddielive]

Who's Tony Robinson? I can only see Baldrick! 😂

[@ianmacfarlane1241]

"The Hundred Year War was beginning to drag on" - only Tony Robinson could deliver that line & not bat an eyelid.

[@scottleft3672]

ww1 2 and the cold war comes close to a hundred year war....i can see why cynicism could set in.

[@birgittabirgersdatter8082]

scott left doesn't compare. Nice try though.

[@geoffreygawler598]

@@scottleft3672 , more than 100 years - the Cold War is still going!

[@scottleft3672]

@@geoffreygawler598 no, the war of islam v christianity, the crusades, is back, since 1991 east is east, and west is west, and never the two shall meet....saddam called the 10th crusade, and was heard.

[@2serveand2protect]

Hahahaha! XDXD :D

[@Dwumper]

I love the casual style of this documentary. Just casually buying coffee while explaining the peasants revolt. It feels like taking a walk with a history professor.

[@KB4QAA]

D: He's an amazing actor. He isn't a professor, nor a historian and has no advanced education! He just mouths what others write for him!

[@tonysudano778]

@@KB4QAA well it sounds so good I want to listen lol.

[@brianm2881]

Every time I buy a coffee, I love to turn around and just start explaining random historical events into the middle distance while I'm waiting for it to be made.

[@sandwichbreath0]

Tony Robinson is like this in every documentary he presents, and he loves history so he's done many different series -- check out more of his stuff for sure!

[@jessyvalentine7492]

Just casually driving down the road maintaining eye contact with the camera, anyone else seem him nearly run a lady over in the beginning?

[@elizabethannegrey6285]

This video is not only timely (Feb 2022 - Canadian protests) but a brilliantly reconstructed (minus the massacres) telling of the uprising. A sobering examination of the levers of power and the mechanisms which push people over the edge. We are never far from barbarism, despite the patina of civilisation.

[@AthelstanEngland]

Modern humans have been around for perhaps 300,000 years this revolt happened only about 600 years ago and truth is we've hardly changed since then. Dictators and their cronies still scaring the populace... only now they come in the guise of "protecting the people".

[@ladyjustice1474]

Apparently history repeats it's self. Jan 2022

[@POLARISFPV]

@@AthelstanEngland I think that excuse was even the same.

[@ethersecure2432]

Wow, well put! A real poet and intellectual! 😅👏 👏 Hope we can settle our differences with more civility this time around though... or is it indeed the case that "liberty must periodically be renewed with the blood of tyrants and patriots"? 😥

[@GasketManzrevenge]

Has anyone forwarded this to citizen journalists? It'd help to awaken those 'woke' to the historical relationship to current affairs.

[@anteandrovic]

great story, great to presentation. Here in Croatia. For similar reasons, the peasants revolt happened in 1573, cruelly put down by the ruling Austrian monarchy. The evolution of human consciousness... is so painfully slow.

[@flyingcloud9253]

What a great history lesson.....What we ALL need more of is HISTORY. What was going on in 1381 is the reason we need to take heed in 2019. The peasants were the pawns for the Rich and the Mighty.

[@janhammer4852]

Indeed

[@a.salmon8193]

History just repeats itself.

[@Petey0707]

@@a.salmon8193 Exactly, the elites bank on an ignorant populace.

[@ms_scribbles]

@@Petey0707 Which is why Republicans are determined to destroy public education in favor of privately owned "charter" schools where only the chosen few will get a proper education.

[@marlaholt3697]

real history not his story big difference.

[@LexiLovesYouXO]

It’s pretty awesome that they made this, shows how all people truly can make a change.

[@theyredistortingyourrhthym126]

citizen arrest powers

[@VestigialHead]

Unfortunately this sort of thing will encourage modern morons to protest over meaningless garbage like we are seeing with the US Police issues and the idiotic BLM movement. I get protesting against real issues - but that seems rarer these days.

[@linshanhsiang]

@@VestigialHead Yes because racism and police murders are insignifiicant.

[@linshanhsiang]

It failed. Change took place more because of the Black Death killing off large portions of the lower classes making their work more valuable (though laws were passed forbidding them to be paid more).

[@karenbartlett1307]

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[@moosemaster96]

They dont teach you about the peasants revolt at school! This blew my mind. Id never even heard of it before. Love Tony Robinson. Makes history so engaging! 🎉

[@imbrivm]

I went to Rochester castle a few years back and it was such a treat! We ended up walking around Rochester and visiting the dockyards too. Such a great pocket of history in Kent!

[@adriennebolles711]

Love that he treats the horses with such dignity.

[@CactusforceX]

Well that's only because they technically out-rank him

[@RLviddy]

"I recognize you, you're my serf" "No I'm not" is almost a Monty Python skit.

[@queenb1119]

Come and see the violence inherent in the system! HELP! HELP! I'm being repressed! 🤣

[@travellervideos2024]

Richard II spoke in French, hardly he spoke English at all

[@phoradio1277]

Do a medieval Jeffrey Dahmer interview with "Serf and Turf" being his last meal.

[@aarons6935]

I cannot unread this and i thank you for that.

[@joelbusald6416]

Or perhaps lines from Black Adder?

[@TommyC503]

This was excellent. I am an American living in the States, but I love English history. I have a lot to learn, but fascinated by everything I continue to learn. Thank you for producing this and God Bless you!

[@helenc1693]

Check out Lucy Worsley, she’s amazing

[@ADEpoch]

@@helenc1693 She is indeed. I stumbled across her on this channel and was so pleased. She's a great communicator, and she really gets into the part she's trying to represent.

[@blaidddrwg-ye9dy]

English history is part of our history, a good part of it.

[@bumblebman8350]

And history repeats itself in Canada

[@roberw1912]

Tony Robinson genuinely loves history and has a flair for presenting programs from a working class viewpoint. I guess it started with Baldrick in Blackadder.

[@oldskoolfool141]

There's nothing working class about Tony Robinson, any solidarity shown is all for the cameras, if the plebs revolted today he'd be the first to bolt his manor doors

[@baldrick2352]

I'd say it all began when he asked Captain Blackadder 'how we got from one case of affairs to the other case of affairs' and when he found out that the poor old ostrich died for nothing.

[@janebaker966]

If some enterprising tv production company would get Tony Robinson and youtuber John Rogers together they'd have a cracking show for TV.

[@janebaker966]

@@oldskoolfool141 I really like Tony Robinson and I love his shows. I did go off him for about half an hour when he left his "common law" wife of 30 years and his three sons by her for some young bird he married just a month later He was one of those" our love is so strong and eternal we don't need one of those silly bits of paper" with his first wife,his not actually married to wife that's what they all say. But I got over it as his TV is so good. Which is unjust of me but that's life.

[@gwpcs]

"They hid the achievements of ordinary people by scorning them as rioting yokels" Some things haven't changed in 637 years!

[@jbloun911]

enemy of the state

[@arseymcpherson]

@topherh33 It depends what they are complaining about, genius.

[@arseymcpherson]

@topherh33 Pathetic.

[@imperatoraugustus9970]

​@@arseymcpherson Do you types have any tone other than smug?

[@homelesssheltervidlogg74]

@@imperatoraugustus9970 lol so true

[@SARHistories]

There’s nothing like a good revolt to give those that govern up a kick up the old backside. Great documentary 👍

[@pushinkeys]

This is probably the 3rd time I’ve seen this and it’s still fascinating.

[@markc4166]

I appreciate the enthusiasm and effort on the documentary attempting to bring history alive

[@devonseamoor]

Very well said, Mark c. Amen to that!

[@sushanalone]

Baldrick narrating the peasant revolt... Blackadder would be stunned at the progress his servant has made over the years.

[@Minx5892]

sushanalone Let's just call it a draw....

[@northeastdriveways8038]

When dose rowan turn up? 😁

[@tangomoggynoengi8518]

The serf became a knight, whilst the knight was still a serf... quite a turn around for the books eh...?! 📜⚔️🛡️

[@DavidHRyall]

Relevant to what's happening in Canada now 🇨🇦

[@jollyrodgers7272]

"The Peasants are Revolting" - still one of the greatest comedic straight-lines, probably since the 14th century!

[@laurahoward5426]

They Stink on Ice

[@georgevidovich8881]

Right haha

[@dempseydoodle2010]

The distance from Canterbury to London is around 100k. Anyone used to being on their feet all day and in fairly good shape could defintely cover that distance in a day and a half. An Ultra Runner could do it in 7-8 hours, a thru hiker on a long distance trail would cover that in just over a day as well. Not as far fetched as they make it out to be here. Only far fetched to modern sedentary humans that aren't used to covering distance on foot.

[@deejin25]

Only if you figure in that they were carrying nothing (not likely) didn't bring food and water, animals. Only if you also figure in that they didn't bring children, or people of different fitness levels, or people who were older, or who had the many injures their lifestyle gave them. Plus they weren't wearing modern shoes and some may have brought carts. Don't assume masses of starving and overworked people with no medical care through out their life move as fast as ultrarunners and fit recreational hikers. VERY few people in medieval Europe were experienced fitness runners on a high nutrition diet, wearing Nikes and having electrolyte drinks. AND these people couldn't move at night, no night vision, radios, gps and the wilds were filled with wolves wild dogs, brigands and possibly snakes.

[@davruck1]

The only thing walking really consumes is time. It’s not extremely strenuous, just slow

[@laurencelance586]

How many hours do you consider is a 'day and a half"? 100 k is 62.1 miles. When I was young I could sustain a 4 mph pace for 6 hours straight. 4 mph is an above average walking speed by any measure, and a large group of people are not going to be able to keep up that pace. I don't see any realistic possibily of covering that distance in a half and certainly not fight afterward.

[@ookiemand]

Marines and Commandos can do it, with a load on their backs.

[@greenwave819]

@@deejin25 Did you watch this video or have any idea about how life was then or what was going on? This was a group of mostly young to middle aged, healthy, able, men. We are talking about humans that were used to walking and riding long distances. They also would have used carts to carry supplies. They were motivated. And this is not some unusual act. This happened regularly throughout history where groups would form and march. How do you think people conducted war? people lived without nikes and sports drinks just fine. also walking at night isn't a pro level trick. These protesters would have been just fine had they marched at night, tho it's likely they camped and slept at night.

[@GeneralKenobiSIYE]

"The peasants are revolting!" "I know, they're disgusting."

[@Petey0707]

Hello there.

[@claidheamhdalaimh3694]

That was too funny. It's kind of like the scientist shouting, "Eureka!" and the assistant saying, "Well. you don't smell so good yourself".

[@flintwestwood5920]

"They've always been revolting. Now, they're rebelling!"

[@seven8n235]

They stink on ice.... Mel Brooks

[@neganrex5693]

Let them eat soap.

[@christopherchristianvanlan1809]

Michael Palin, Tony Robinson, Richard Hammond and Morgan Freeman. My favorite documentary hosts

[@howardjohnson2138]

Tony Robinson is SO GOOD. Thank you

[@g.w.hampton5525]

Great history lesson for 2021-2022.

[@dontcomply3976]

Yes, the original trucker convoy

[@ashleysapp6571]

Yes, I'm watching now in the hopes of some ideas. Something has got to give.

[@benzomanic2972]

After watching Time Team and now this. Have to say, Tony seems like a genuinely awesome guy. You dont see real personality in American TV like this. Love it.

[@wendywhite2642]

I think these people whoever they are are stealing time teams series to make money! I just got an update from time team saying they are on patreon.

[@peetyw8851]

A. I’m a proud TTeam supporter as of TODAY vis Patreon. Please join in. B. Being an Amurikan, it seems that genuineness is frowned upon by the TV-Industrial Complex over here.

[@Inspectorgadget111]

You are obviously easily duped, he is regarded as a total idiot here in UK .

[@AClark-gs5gl]

@@Inspectorgadget111 😆

[@jiddon3446]

@@Inspectorgadget111 nah

[@WastingTime1878]

I believe this should be taught, EVERYWHERE. A very powerful story, a lot of the working class can still relate to.

[@davidtownsend6092]

Around halfway about 25 min (28m30sec remaining) When tony casually tells the horse to "stop that!" Mid sentence when the horse pushes him was one of the most british things ive ever seen

[@sho4504]

32:10 I like how Tony storms the cathedral himself and disrupts the quite, disturbs everyone in the cathedral and crosess the rope like its his own revolt XDD

[@gorillaau]

"Sire! Sire! The peasants are revolting!" "Yes, I know they smell a bit but no need to go on about it"

[@Enonymouse_]

Well played! :D

[@peetyw8851]

Nailed it!

[@historytank5673]

*peasants charge in with pitch forks* “Oh I see…”

[@james4ddy]

Serie is made by the ruling class after all king Jeff bezos

[@a787fxr]

The effort to be as accurate as possible with the smallest details is truly appreciated. I learned many new things. Thanks. !:- )

[@janebaker966]

That was so good. I missed that one on actual TV. Tony Robinson is such a good storyteller. True stories but told well. How cool that the first rebel bore my surname. I'm not a descendant however ,my lot go back to Fawley and Dibden near Southampton(earliest date known late 1500s,not my find,a cousin with better access to the archives and a sherlock Holmes mind). I did know that the "Peasants" were in real terms the emerging Middle Class. And I reckon that literacy was even then more widespread than ever that expert thought. In school in the 1960s we were taught that until the 19th century our poor,ignorant,yokel ancestors lived in the same village for hundreds of years. When you do your family history you discover how untrue this is. Not only were they not ignorant,they were literate to some degree right back in the 1700s but they were incredibly,sometimes frustratingly mobile. They really got about. I wonder how different our society would have been if the rebels had succeded in implementing change. But the "elites" never allow that. This film was filmed pre-covid now we today are in a similar situation and the "elites" no doubt know their history and have taken lessons in people control from it.

[@Darwinsmom]

Of all the presenters who appear in the many documentaries I so enjoy watching, one man and one woman stand out as my hands-down favourites: Tony Robinson and Lucy Worsely. If I were to ever have the chance to sit down with either of them over a coffee, I have one question to ask both. What was the defining factor that brought you to presenting historical documentaries? I wonder about that because my late husband was a history fanatic who often peppered conversations with fascinating historical details that always checked out if his knowledge was challenged. Thanks, Tony and Lucy, for being the voices through which I can learn so many wonderful details from the past!

[@erikhalvorseth3950]

Tony is such a lovable and charming person. Another fantastic program

[@getyourwillhere]

He seems a fair horseman in his handling of the animals

[@DulceN]

@@getyourwillhere He’s definitely no horseman if he’s ‘feeling it’ after just one hour of riding. Something very different and unrelated is his treatment of animals.

[@CELTICSAVAGE32]

Amazing and inspiring story of bravery, tenacity and the power of the everyday people.

[@janetteohare9083]

Sad today that those in power don't seem to read history. As Rodney said to the little king "Sire, the peasants are revolting''. The King replied ''You can say that again''.

[@donaldhill3823]

I like to think myself well versed in History yet I do not recall hearing about this revolt. Love learning new things in history. Thank you for the lesson.

[@dakinedoc]

New things?

[@toffee2547]

@@dakinedoc new to him, yes.

[@fainitesbarley2245]

I remember vaguely doing this at school when I was about 12 or so. The thing I remember most was the utter betrayal by the king and a lively argument about whether the fact he was only 14 excused it.

[@linshanhsiang]

So much ignorance of history....perhaps explains some of the irrational behavior we are seeing today

[@Violetta1912]

@@linshanhsiang Most of the people of today wouldn’t be able to see the similarities. They have no idea of the repercussions of their actions, or lack of.

[@kimandrews2192]

We so need a revolt like this but much bigger. How significant this is.

[@thestopper5165]

Just so long as our Wat Tyler is not stupid enough to accept an offer to parlay. Tyler assumed that the 'nobles' had a sense of honour: he ought to have spurned the offer and killed them all over the next couple of weeks. We have the same problem today: people think that the tyranny will end, so long as they comply with the latest 'public health' edict. NO. It is Machete Time. It is IED time.

[@devonseamoor]

@Kim Andrews. Isn't it spot on, your comment? I'm speaking as a Dutchy, who has lived for 4,5 years in rural Britain. Now that BoJo is found naughty by organizing those parties during the 2020 lockdown, only formally apologizing, saying "I expected it to be a work discussion" (how lame an excuse) in parliament, some in the Tory party want him to resign. I can't see a rebellion of Tories soon, in the same manner as the peasants did in the 14th century, but I do hope that the common people in Britain will find the smouldering embers of anger about the class system's injustice and the governmental dysfunctional management. I've noticed how many, especially those over 50 years of age, are enormously dumbed down. I hope and pray that younger generations will compensate for the complacency of their ancestors. I strongly believe that change for the better needs to start from within citizens.

[@timway6839]

Significant enough to get us wiped out again.

[@Jizzlewobbwtfcus]

@@devonseamoor unfortunately it's the younger ones they fill the heads of with all the bs propaganda because their impressionability makes them easier targets to control. Not to mention it seemed governments had no qualms killing off elderly people who know about common sense and recognize tyranny.

[@radamson1]

Yes, Kim, much bigger, worldwide.

[@rickdeckard7361]

Interesting how history repeats itself.

[@Marenqo]

Thanks for making a documentary about this, been wanting to watch something like this

[@peterfeltham5612]

Tony,the 'Essex Boy' is a modern socialogical gem.Love his programmes,and so educational for the younger generation.

[@shaughnfourie304]

?

[@decantabriaball938]

The link doesn't work mate

[@32inzane]

I love how Mike and his comrades are retracking the footsteps and even sleeping on the ground after a good days ride. Great work mate , cheers!

[@steveholloway1963]

It's amazing how history repeats itself

[@funkysack288]

Tyrants never look at history. They keep making the same mistakes.

[@VladimirBagina]

i'm a simple man - I see Tony Robinson, I click

[@rachelmcclemons1717]

is no one gonna talk about that chaotic energy in that church? or this whole documentary? tony do be vibing tho.

[@MrHeroicDemon]

for real

[@nullvid]

What do you know about vibing, Karen?

[@goose1828]

Jason Gardner She is the opposite of a Karen, not every woman is a Karen.

[@jenimurray001]

Anybody else watching in late 2020 and thinking history repeating itself??

[@alexturlais8558]

The struggles of those who aren't represented by those that govern them seems to be repeated all too often.

[@Uffda.]

Brings to mind that quote about how history doesn’t repeat itself, but it often rhymes

[@jctr4559]

Yes, however, the powerful media, might be considered the todays “Abby”to deal with in the initial phase of a revolution.

[@jamesrogalski2085]

Yep!! Sure do, hope it ends up with same results.

[@Groglor]

2022 up in Canada yes

[@victoriadarkflame]

Canada needs version 2.0 of this right now. Sad day.

[@stevefugere2687]

The background to the peasant's revolt sounds uncomfortably familiar. I'm thinking we need another revolt but this one may need to be world wide.

[@garrystone5409]

"With the stakes so high" as Tony walks down a row of hanging beef carcasses!

[@bustedfender]

Is that Tim Vine?

[@marygunning5121]

Thanks for remembering the truth and the courage those Great people had to do what they did, God Bless them all.

[@daveeff-subs846]

That was so good to watch from lockdown, I was entirely unaware of the happeneings. Thanks for posting

[@honorladone8682]

Thanks for your time and consideration. Philadelphia USA

[@StacyL.]

I love that Tony is REAL and his documentaries are REAL. At around 36:31 he admits he and his crew last contact with the riders and he sees the humor and also the historocity in it-- that he may have just recreated one of the big issues of the times in which the Peasant's Revolt happened, Ave that was communication issues. Brilliant!! 👏

[@BeExcellent21Another]

Tony Robinson is a national treasure!

[@kimlee4010]

WoW! Terrific video. So well put together. A true diamond this one. Thanks

[@badgerpie6]

Love it when Mike Loades turns up!!

[@delavalmilker]

It's this bit of history that gives today's One-Percent nightmares.

[@ThatCamel104]

@Celto Loco sounds like you never read any Marx.

[@nopeid2790]

@Celto Loco as much as o hate to agree, there's a reason "conservatives" in America believe in gun ownership, because the military is so well funded they don't care.

[@janebaker966]

Thats why "social isolation" is such a favourite with them.

[@robw1571]

It's good to see things really haven't changed that much.

[@reginaford8575]

Amazing howbee can put today's actors into this timeline. Avarice!!!

[@stationplaza4631]

"Scorning them as rioting yokels"....Sounds remarkably similar to how things are playing out in Canada right now.

[@azzybaby]

been BINGE watching loads of these . . love Tony's style . .

[@Bphillips2808]

Love the documentaries on youtube, as long as i remember never to scroll down to the comments

[@dorianphilotheates3769]

Brett Phillips -All part of the fun, mate.

[@331coolguy]

Brett Phillips that's my mistake to

[@docfurious2408]

The comments are sometimes the best part. Reminds me of " 1066 and all that ". Ex: " William invaded England and became King by sticking an arrow into Kind Harold's eye ". About the standerd of history one can expect from Sir Tony ( I have a Knighthood ya yobs ) Robertson.

[@Tsumami__]

Brett Phillips this comment section isn’t so bad

[@leonisserlis5978]

hahaha, oh my friend, so true!

[@politicallycorrectredskin796]

One good thing about the Black Death in Britain and most of continental Europe was that the highly centralized infrastructure of the village was still there. It didn't take very long to repopulate and society went back to normal. Places like Norway on the other hand were permanently derailed, because much of the agriculture was decentralized. Just one farm on its own way up in the hills. When everyone died there, nature quickly reclaimed farms it had taken centuries to make viable, and they never returned. Arguably Norway had never fully recovered from the Black Death when they found oil in the North Sea in the 60s and got out of the doldrums that way.

[@janebaker966]

Also the Black Death by seriously decreasing the working population raised the wages and ended serfdom,not in an official legal way but because no Lord could stop his peasants moving to the next Manor where the Lord who needed his crops got in was offering higher money and the plethora of laws against it showed that it WASNT WORKING. The labourers got on their bikes and the Lords competed offering better money so in England at least Peasantry and Serfdom came to an end. It didn't end poverty as such but no longer were you owned by a Lord. I'm sure our current elites have studied history well and thought of something about this.

[@linshanhsiang]

In Peter Akroyd's excellent history "Foundation" he points out that these revolters were not peasants at all but artisans. Blacksmiths and the like.

[@adampeters7947]

Thanks for that

[@SubvertTheState]

That's usually who starts things. Mid level administrators, middle class professionals, but they still need the masses to either aid or affirm the message or ideals of a movement for it to gain a momentum all its own.

[@Enoo-Wynn]

Possibly you're right. What percentage of the population were "artisans"? I must confess I want you to be wrong. My working class pride is irked!

[@Roikat]

England had a large freeman class who were partially descended from downwardly mobile former lords. The freemen were armed to provide the archery artillery support in military campaigns. This class drove most revolts in England, due to resentment of downward mobility and knowledge that their support of the system was essential to the lords.

[@linshanhsiang]

@@SubvertTheState The middle classes scarcely even existed at the time. Artisans were working class, but not serfs who were almost or even slaves.

[@jonathaneffemey944]

Thanks so much for posting

[@marianneluban3347]

I like the way Tony is willing to do anything. I feel sure he didn't grow up with horses, but if someone asks him to hold a skittish one, he just gets on with it. One of my favorite presenters of history and one of the few men who looks really good in a goatee.

[@fyodorplays6094]

49:53 - five people, three chairs... Mike's crew revolt!

[@blaisegrail9778]

Ordering the bacon roll a whole minute after the tea. Outrageous behaviour, Sir Tony.

[@beckyblack2333]

I've heard of the Peasant's Revolt, but I don't remember hearing the story behind it. Thanks.

[@VlogrBlogr]

WOW! Thank you so much! What an inspiration learning about this story, if it wasn't for you I would never have known how sophisticated this really was.

[@djbadlt]

Baldrick!! So glad to see you survived going over the top!

[@AudieHolland]

Never seen "Time Team?"

[@djbadlt]

@@AudieHolland oh I have ..... Just love making that joke

[@shaynebergwever6268]

Thanks for the awesome vid! ✊✌💖

[@james0000]

Thank you for another educational and entertaining video!

[@delavalmilker]

"When they could bear it [oppression, poverty] no more, the People's response shook the nation to its core". We need another "Peasants Revolt" today.

[@kaysussex4991]

I’m definitely revolting!

[@kt3184]

✅ in progress;)

[@samuelskogqvist5565]

Nah, keep eating macdonalds and watch TV you anglo freaks

[@NickC_222]

I love Tony Robinson, he's basically one of my heroes, but I'm having real trouble getting past how distracting the asymmetrical goatee is. His left side is trimmed in like 4 mm tighter than his right and I can't not notice it lol.

[@rachelhorwitz9086]

DAMMIT now I can’t help but look at it. 😂

[@markdemell6087]

Maybe he ran off early and did not finish his shave. Hahaha.

[@anthonywinter1994]

Right?! And I thought the white growing back in was glue at first.

[@colleenkennedy1934]

OOF that is bad

[@mahna_mahna]

I just ran across a tweet where he wrote about this show: "One of the documentaries I’m most proud of. Although I did have a very silly little beard in those days!"

[@jacquelinehall6198]

I really enjoyed watching this video. I also learnt a lot too!! Thank you 😊

[@Zluwa]

The time line really Makes sense

[@arnold8746]

Funny how history seems to repeat itself, we are in beginnings of something much like this now in many different places.

[@happygilmore1844]

absolutely mate...love your profile picture btw, very true...is there alot of taxes happening in the US?

[@janebaker966]

But THEY have learned well from history.

[@antonmatthaus4340]

Right,agree!

[@minnoui]

From Canada here, and I agree

[@jowlorenz9555]

Only way to win the game Monopoly is to wreck the board and watch the cheater-bankster flip-out ...

[@PooDotStinkPants]

*Who better than Baldrick to investigate the plight of the peasants.*

[@mohammedpanju2236]

Tony Robinson makes History so interesting.

[@murphyandotherstuff6884]

Thank you, Baldrick.

[@yancowles]

'The hundred year's war with the french was dragging on...' Yes, you could say that.

[@melhupby]

Quintessentially British description right there. Have you heard of Brig' Tom Brodie? Reported 600 Brits facing down 10,000 Chinese as 'a bit sticky', Americans missing the understatement didn't send help because they thought he meant it was okay.

[@AlexanderDunetz]

Agincourt , France Archery , lots of archers , extra extra lots of arrows. Lots of dead French nobility and their heavy horses

[@bevan2342]

Sarcasm

[@lahire4943]

It was not dragging on. At all. The war was over in 1381, with the English being defeated. Which is a reason why this revolt happened. Exactly why the great jacquerie happened in France in 1358 after Poitiers. But there was no military operation in France between the French and the English between 1381 and 1415

[@yancowles]

​@@lahire4943 Yeah, I think perhaps you're missing the humour here with the joke being that, for a war that ran its course over a hundred years, saying it was dragging on (not dragging 'one' as you said) is a monumental understatement. The fact that it was over in 1381 is irrelevant; how long it lasted is the salient point. Hope you're enjoying your new years eve though, have a great 2022.

[@joanneallam8262]

I love Tony's documentaries he is so natural and comfortable when he talks keep making more documentaries love them.

[@abendnokneebro]

History often rhymes as humanity’s response to tyranny has never changed.

[@madprofessor1683]

"With the steaks so high" Well played sir, well played.

[@ukrulesall1]

For the sake of all that is decent what is that on Tony’s chin?

[@kathyf123]

Looks like he plays bass in a jazz band.

[@omfug7148]

LMAO

[@JRyanIsAConformist]

It's crooked 😕

[@motnosniv]

Jeff Baker Gray hair dyed black looks stupid

[@craigcowing1107]

Looks like he dipped his chin in black paint

[@livianegidius9772]

I do not know if Baldrick had cunning plan but i know as history freak think that Tony Robinson`s presentation of events regarding peasant revolt in England is excellent .Great comedian and great actor and presenter of this largely unknown event outside Britain. Sublime.

[@Warren2490]

We need this now, more than ever