The Great Rising of 1381 - Tony Robinson. Pt. 10/11

Tony Robinson explores and reconstructs how a peasant uprising in the summer of 1381 came to within a whisker of turning England's power structures upside down. (2004)

Category:

Education

Tags:

• The Peasants' Revolt
• Tylers Rebellion
• Great Rising of 1381
• Wat Tyler
• John Ball
• Jack Straw
• Thomas Baker
• Richard II
• John of Gaunt
• Simon Sudbury
• Sir Robert Hales
• William Walworth

[TheChundar]

A tragic end to what could have seen Europe into a new age of social justice based on the peoples ability to govern themsleves, instead, like every revolution thats happened in England dispite all the dreams of change, the people dared not chqallenge the keystone of mediaval philosophy; the King's devine right to rule. Thus their anger was focussed on the Flamish and on the King's court

[PollyJuice]

That king Richard was a real little rat. Lesson learned: never trust a teenage ruler, especially not if he's a religious nut.

[Standuble]

@sewagedweller Precisely. So don't bring it into your argument as an important factor if its an irrelevant one.

[sewagedweller]

@Standuble same thing can be said about being christian . DUhh that's point . 

[Standuble]

@sewagedweller Thats an old and tired fallacy. Being atheist is not necessarily a factor in psychopathy and megalomania.

[sewagedweller]

@shcnoozlebop well there was this atheist called stalin, and then there was another atheist called comrade mew of china

[Avillageidiot59]

@shcnoozlebop What are the atheists up to? Communism is atheist. Just look what they did when they had the chance to rule with an iron fist.

You can find exceptions to the rule in all systems; and power corrupts. The odds are a Christian is more honest than most others.

[shcnoozlebop]

@Avillageidiot59 not to mention so many catholic and christian priests are caught having sex with prostitutes, other men and thrown in jail for molesting little boys, while islamic priests are raping girls under 13.

i think you need to get your shit straight, buddy.

but if you want to hand your sons over to the "good" christian priest and get his attention off mine, be my guest.

[shcnoozlebop]

@Avillageidiot59 hundreds of millions of christians, islamists, hindus and jews are raping and murdering every single day in the name of their god and trying to convert the world to their own religion; what are the atheists getting up to? fuck-all, nobody knows - the only exciting thing they're doing is trying to rid the education system of lunatic islamic schools teaching kids how to take someone's hand off with precision because they merely stole something.

[Avillageidiot59]

@PollyJuice

Just remember, teenagers (18 & 19 yr olds) can vote today!

And I would trust someone who's religious before I would trust an atheist: consider communist dictators such as Stalin.

[Sutorenja]

they should have shot!!!