This clip explains how an unpopular new tax led to the greatest uprising in the history of Medieval England, the Peasants' Revolt of 1381, and how young Richard II defused it.

Find out about the Peasants' Revolt with BBC Bitesize History. ... King Richard II. Some peasants felt that such a young king could be pressurised into making changes that would improve their lives.

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Economy; 13 June 1381: the Peasants’ Revolt. Wat Tyler's peasants' revolt against an unpopular poll tax accelerated the decline of serfdom.

Richard II’s meeting with the rebels is one of the most astonishing moments in English history, as a 14-year-old boy rides out to meet thousands of his armed and angry people. By Paul Kingsnorth ...

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King Richard II acceded the throne at the age of just 10, in 1377. At 14 he faced down The Peasants' Revolt and negotiated personally with Wat Tyler. But by the time he came of age, he adhered to ...

The gentleness that is a particularly appealing element of Mark Rylance's stage persona is put to fine use in the actor's performance as Shakespeare's diffident Richard II at Shakespeare's Globe.

An "unprecedented" tomb effigy of England's "Black Prince" was likely created by his son King Richard II as medieval propaganda to bolster his troubled reign.