What caused the Peasants revolt? Why did the summer of 1381 lead to such a seismic event? Was it all the fault of tax or, was there more to this uprising? Who was John Ball and why did the phrase ‘when Adam delved and Eve span, who was then a gentleman’ lead to the attempt to overturn the Feudal system? 

Why were there so many murders in and around Cheapside in the 14th century? What made the apprentices of the livery company so willing to spill blood? 

What happened on the White Ship? Why was there so much unrest? What was the Anarchy? Why were favourites such a problem for monarchs and who was Simon de Montford and who on earth were the Mortimer’s? Find out about the constant unrest in the Early Medieval Period: 1100-1370. 

This episode is on the animals that have been gifted to monarchs over the years from Pelicans to Polar Bears. 

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