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Make payment with Paypal an option, I don't have a creditcard.

Cousins your more American than you are willing to admit lol ❤

Yes absolutely

Based.

PrinceCanute, yes ~ "power yields nothing without a fight."

All governments are evil and the world is about to take back control. History repeats itself.

Never more relevant than now.

I AGREE! The estimated world population is 7.8 billion. I'm pretty sure the wealthy are very small portion of that number. Imagine if we could organize a new Peasants Revolt.The idea of interrupting the debauchery of the wealthy with a bit of a scare does make me smile.

Not really. They should behave better to avoid giving cause to authorities to kill them. Also to make demands that are more reasonable and don’t make the king look weak. If they killed the king they just untie the hands of all of the subservient to kill all of them.

@@StopFear I have no objection to having all tyrants meet a bloody end.

@@StopFear you are extremely naive.

To become but tyrants their ´effin’ selves....Right has no right without a vain of humility, damn it! - Then get some!

The deciding factor for me is how the word ‘tyrants’ is defined. It seems to be used very loosely in the States these days by both “sides”. Which is not a good thing. Since actual tyrants need removing……agreement on who is a tyrant and who is merely a disliked or unpopular politician is the “rub”.

Shell Craigmiles .... and footage , what a documentary !!

My Dad's name was Ball, my mother's Baker, and I come from Essex, my sister reckons we are descended from Peasant's Revolt folk, and I wouldn't be surprised. I live in Australia now, but my sister refused to pay the poll tax which Thatcher imposed. I must say, this documentary names places I knew well, we lived in Manningtree.

and we will Remember the names of politicians we all have now in 600 years because they're not much better then the ones we just watched

Imagine my surprise learning I'm descended from the guy who killed Wat Tyler.

@@TerryCrodgedy and footage...lol

If you are talking about high school, no. The 1381 revolt is too specialized for that. But I did know of it in college.

It's from the BBC

2 years ago it wasn’t so bad to admit that. Now americans are comparable to joe pedo biden 🤮

@@williammorris3303 Not 100% sure what you meant - though I am 99.9% sure that Joe Biden ISN’T A PEDOPHILE.🙄

now, i'm thinking there is a good reason why you "westerners" usually have crappy history classes in your schools, compering to us, eastern europeans. it's not just studying history is not pragmatic enough...

He's a terrific presenter

@@louise-yo7kz Baldric was always smarter than Blackadder...

Hear hear

I have to agree. He has a way of drawing in his audience so that they become part of the re enactment of historical events.

I mean, I don't have a particular interest in old English history, but here I am, watching and learning of the horrors. I hope they show his programs in English schools. He is everything a history teacher should be.

If you enjoy Tony's presentation style, check out the TIME TEAM series of programmes of which he was a key part. I learned a great deal about history from this series which also included a few international sites.

He has plenty of stuff out there he’s staple of British tv. Time team as mentioned, look up Black Adder for a laugh.

Have you treid installing AdBlock...?

'One' would never do that.... I for one as suggested use adblock to avoid temptation to riot due to adverts!!!

no ads here? youtube uk has ads

If Adblock Plus does not help UKposts UK, I can't help. What about uBlock Origin, doesn't that work, either?

My point is that conditions remain but are blindly tolerated. Using adblock to keep it out of mind only makes that situation even worse.

Did you now ?

Yep ! Not a guy to mess with !

Christopher Lyerly. I thought it odd too, but I like blues guitar. Reminds me of Skeleton Key the movie that I. saw a few years ago. I feel in love with a song called "Death Letter" by Johnny Farmer. I'm going to go find it right now.

the Brits were well ahead back then, did you not know they were rocking electric guitars and Marshall Amps LOL . even their armour was kevlar LOL

I know. With a British announcer. It’s very unsettling.

maybe it's supposed to inspire american blacks to revolt? but these days pretty much only white people know anything about blues music!

I thought the same. Delta slide guitar is outlandish to this documentary. Smh.

Lol

That was starting to happen in 2012/2013 with the occupy Wallstreet movement but the elites successfully divided the populous before the movement got to much momentum.

Yeah... I'm extremely critical of this "leader"

Not really, the king was never on their side.

People fervently believed at that time that the king was God's appointed representative on Earth. They naively assumed that it was only the courtiers that were corrupt and that the King would seek truth, justice and fairness for all man. The same thing happened when York fell to Robert Aske rebels against Henry 8th . Aske (a trained lawyer) assumed that God's representative King Henry would offer fair justice.

We got the absolute monarch to actually agree to policy reforms, execute the nefarious aristocrats, and make permanent concessions in writing that will ensure our lives are better! Now kill 'em! Guess 'Quit while your ahead.' wasn't a saying yet. XD Wat Tyler sounds like the type who would've just declared himself king in a week or two after taking over.

People never know when to quit

The old ones are the best!

Or from Mel Brooks' The History of the World Part 1: Count DeMoney: "Sire, it is said that the peasants are revolting!" King Louis: "You said it! They stink on ice!"

Your telling me! They stink to high heaven.

@Raymond I prefer the term "homage".

@@gailcbull "It's 'DeMo=NAY!!".

Would love it if it was Rowan Atkinson...

I thought that too, Tony say's let me have a go at him (with the weapon)

@@Johangv Tony would have hit him harder me thinks.

why not the long straw???????????????????????????

Honestly felt so bad for him, some of the hits he copped surely hurt even with armor on hahahaha

☆rising up

The peasants did well with their demands and getting it written into Royal charters. It was the further demands that were their undoing.

@@sampuatisamuel9785 Not even that - Richard the II was buying time for the reinforcements to come -- when they did and surrounded them? Mass murder. So much for the signed documents and promises... fascism never changes.

@@TheOneAndOnlyZeno1889 You are probably right about that

I hope you have followed through on this, and if you haven't found it already I suggest checking out Time Team Classics here on YT they are releaseing full versions of the original Time Team digs shown on C4 back in the day...

Remember that Tony Robinson supported mass immigration and multiculturalism so he's clearly against the British working-class.

@@jamesmoran5192 So ppl are good as long as they share your culture, and came out of their mother's crotch in the right country? You aren't better than an immigrant, and were just lucky to be born where you were.

@Jellybean EXACTLY! All lawyers are "evil", until it's YOUR head about to be chopped off...

@@brentfarvors192 That’s not the point. Law and lawyering is overwhelmingly serves and is in the favor of people already powerful and wealthy. OP, maybe overstates the case here in their analogy but that point that these lawyers for the powerful are always the bad guys is true.

@@cjaquilino Nowhere in my reply did I suggest otherwise; Only, stating a FACT! Which WAS the POINT of my reply...And, why I specifically posted it!

@@brentfarvors192 Your motivation for that comment was to defend lawyers as a class, my best guess. That’s fine. OP overstated their case but what I think they meant was lawyers generally are not the good guys in many cases. So “off with their heads”. It’s not a big deal. Just pointing that out.

@@cjaquilino I neither insinuated a "motive", nor had one; I posted the comment because it's the TRUTH! Nothing more, nor less than the truth! No where did I either support the law profession, OR vilify it! If YOU are accused of a crime you didn't commit, the FIRST PERSON you will want is a LAWYER! Period. End of statement!

Gabe Moore ,It really is an interesting insight of what happened in that time,it’s a reality & not a myth of days long past that can be inspirational on the people’s right to a governing body to be aware of the populous & it’s grievances of today as well.(No chopping of heads of course)Lol.

History is Awesome! Awful! Ok, both.

imo the first mistake that people make is not listening to their own hearts to begin with. They easily get swept up in the excitement of movements, like leaves in the wind, but they are not fully committed. To get involved, or not to get involved. Being in alignment (spiritually, mentally, emotionally) with what you are doing is crucial. This principal is also valuable to avoid getting into situations where one can potentially open oneself up to manipulation.

NEE!

@@Lassisvulgaris how dare you say NEE to that old woman.

@@andrewharper1609 Just don't say "it" oh no now I've said it, arrr I said it again, and again!

with a white picket fence

You mean Ní!

paul manson just like how apple used to mean any fruit and girl used to be used instead of child. It's old English *old* English. No txt language of millions genders in the 14th century. Back when men where allowed to be men, and women knew how to take responsibility.

Paul Manson,that explains something I read in a fiction novel that took place in the early 15th century There was a mention of a horse that was fed corn instead of grass and the man who mentioned it thought that it was outrageously expensive and not necessary.I had thought the horse was eating actual corn which could've been used to feed people

Probably from the scandinavian word korn one type of grain, vete, korn, havre, råg all names of difrent types of grain in scandinavia. The vikings really destroyed some parts of the English language you use a large number of scandinavian words daily in Great Britain to day.

Yes, you are all correct. But, 'Merica took corn and put it to concrete slurry as well, so... seperate common language?

Quiet Dignity and Grace What are you talking about ?

They mentioned the plague in Part One.

They did mention the plague in part one, but your reflections as to the psychological effects on the survivors offers an added dimension and food for thought. Thanks.

You could. But armed police would taser tear gas and pepper spray you with drones then toss you all into solitary on the isle of Wight.

there is a reason london buildings are made of stone, they can't be removed.

What about infrastructure, healthcare, education, the legal system, local security ergo police, national security, prisons, waste, etc all public goods? We need a state... Although we do not need an over bearing monolith..

All we have to do is withhold our labour. That'd be enough.

That is not what I saw. There is no honor from the controlling class, it is all deception and control at all cost. Then when you win you destroy the vermin working humans to keep their children afraid of doing it again because it is hopeless. They split and quartered your mommy and daddy if not impaled them on a pole like the Romans did.

Not to mention he was serving out of a riding helmet that he'd just taken off his head and was probably loaded with sweat.

It's a British thing, it would be rude not to lick your fingers before handing out food.

@@Pfsif It's an important tradition from our British ancestors that is carried on here in Australia, though the container is not always a sweaty riding helmet as not so many of us ride these days.

its ok hes used to sharing a crack pipe with people

​@@marieravening927 Ohhhhhh , an "important" tradition !!!! ,ahhhhhhhhh I didn't know that ,well I suppose that makes it ok then lol

Yeah! Time for more bloodshed!

Garvey #1 another settlement needs our help

Yes, the aristocracy were mainly descended from the Normans who siezed most of the land, and killed or disposesed most English landowners.

I think the lesson is that they should have been more ambitious! John Ball would have made an amazing ruler, if he'd had the ambition.

I am no expert, but they did want to reform the nature of Gov't completely, except for the King. They wanted common law, and local law enforcement. The end of aristrocracy was their goal. The freedom these people wanted did not die with their revolt. The ability to achieve their end is another matter I'm not prepared to address. Being an American we like to think that we broke with the old traditions of ruling elites... Now we find ourselves on the verge of another terrible reign of oppression that seeks to change even our nature as human beings... For those of us who survive their death shots... Organization is very difficult in a total surveillance state. It is well that we fight now, and not wait until it gets worse !

Indeed; it was only the hardliners who made up a tiny majority (less than a percent) who demanded an end to the aristocracy, because that was completely alien to the people of the time. Most of them wanted only freedom and fair treatment, not a complete restructuring of the social order.

Help, Help!! I'm being exploited!!

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Not much of a change

yes makes him a sneaky lying untrusty mass murderer.... Oh Did I say a royal

The young King, although showing a certain courage, betrayed the extreme loyalty of his subjects, probably on the advice of his aristocratic advisors. He did not deserve his people's trust. Those rebels never were his enemies- they were unconditionally on the King's side. He was cunning and heartless, putting even his most loyal subjects the knife in the back, when it was in his own interest.

@LogicianTenderstone all great military tacticians use sneakiness as strategy... Fooling opponents is literally strategy

There's another docu-series that Timeline uploaded presented by Dan Jones that paints Richard II as someone having a god complex. That could also be a reason for the ballsy-ness.

Not really. The rebels trusted him implicitly because they believed the king was God's divine choice to lead them. To go against the king was to go against God.

Wow! Quite an unhappy end to a King who had shown such promise. Perhaps it was poetic justice or it was the Nobles who got back at him for letting the revolt occur in the first place!

So no cake for him then

It says a lot that this is, I think, the only British king whose time and mode of death are essentially unknown.

The most maligned king in British history. This brave 14 year old had no power to grant the rebels' demands but was entirely controlled by the lords who actually ruled the country during Richard's minority. He wished to negotiate and grant some concessions, but was prevented from doing so and was forced to go back on his word, and was also forced to watch the executions. At the age of 21 he was still denied power and had to insist on his right to rule - yet was opposed on every front by these barons who would not surrender their powers. Once he eventually took some control he angered them by pausing the 100 years war with France, commanding that English be the official language of the court, and encouraging reforms in religious matters (his adored wife Anne was from Bohemia where reforming ideas were popular). He was the first king since the Norman Conquest to speak English as a first language. He wrote the first English cookery book ("The Form of Cury"). He is said to have invented the handkerchief. He banned the trying of "witches" and upheld the tradition of sanctuary against moves to abolish it. He was a tremendous patron of the arts, promoting and supporting Geoffrey Chaucer and the great architect William of Wykeham who redesigned Westminster Abbey and the wonderful nave of Winchester Cathedral. In his reign English music, art and literature flourished as never before. After his wife died suddenly he was grief stricken and furious with the barons who had disrespected her and opposed her influence, and he memorably took a savage revenge, seizing and executing the worst of the tyrants. In the final years of his reign he consolidated his power and tried to rule absolutely, not trusting advisers, and for this his enemies who eventually deposed him and wrote the official chronicles labelled him a tyrant. Yet Richard II remained generally popular, especially in the provinces, which he visited frequently. He was especially popular on the Welsh Borders where he was affectionately known as "Diccon". He took his White Hart badge from the white deer who roamed the great forest of Gwent, where he liked to hunt. Unfortunately he and Anne had no children, so he named his nephew Harry of Monmouth, son of his cousin Henry Bolingbroke, as his heir. The teenage Harry went on campaign with his uncle Richard in Ireland and greatly admired him. But while they were out of the country Bolingbroke organised a plot among disaffected aristocracy to capture the king on his return. This was done, and King Richard was deposed in 1399 at the age of 33, and Bolingbroke seized the throne as Henry IV. His son never forgave him and hated his father (who really was a tyrant), becoming Henry V when his father died. Richard II was imprisoned and almost certainly starved to death - certainly murdered. His supporters never accepted the coup, constantly fomented rebellion, and eventually became the Yorkist faction in the Wars of the Roses that kicked off after the untimely death of the young Henry V. But it was Bolingbroke's faction (including the French historian Froissart) who wrote the histories that Shakespeare drew on and subsequent ages accepted uncritically. So maybe it isn't surprising that the biased and distorted view of this king has prevailed and is still trotted out in almost all histories. Interestingly Terry Jones of Monty Python fame was a fan of Richard II and tried to rehabilitate him. He was not a strong ruler - he wasn't allowed to be by the oligarchy that clung to power for much of his reign - but he was a sincere, brave and honest and possibly a rather naive one, who seems to have been traumatised by his humiliating treatment at the hands of his scheming uncles. He was in real danger at Smithfield at the hands of the rebels, and had been abandoned by the unprepared court. He knew he, at 14, would have to try to save the day somehow, and he probably had some sympathy for the rebels (though Wat Tyler was certainly a thug). He was made to pay for this afterwards. Those were harsh times. Just setting the record straight!

@@aelbereth6690 interesting, thanks

LOL many thanks to my chief editor Cynthia n/a - amendments made.

Or if they had instead filled the little 14 year old traitor punk with about 500 arrows!

It wasn't Tyler's extra demands. Richard, and the nobles around him, had no intention whatever of keeping his word. Along with the rebels, the copies of the so-called charter were hunted down and destroyed. Richard sent an emissary to the Pope to get absolution from the oath he took(you could get released from anything you did if you sent the Pope a big enough bribe. As long as it didn't offend the Church). His statement to the peasants was "Serfs were you born, serfs will you remain!", and he made the laws that bound the serfs to the land even stricter. Richard II was one of the WORST English kings ever

@@mikegrossberg8624 That's some stiff competition, what are the measuring for bad monarchs? Bad for their own system or bad for the masses over whom they tread?

@@mikegrossberg8624 That's entirely untrue. He was forced into revoking his oath by the real rulers, his uncles who took control of the realm - and the young king - during his minority. He spent his entire reign trying to wrest power from them. See my previous comment. He was a tragic king, but not a bad one, and he remained generally popular among his subjects. His enemies wrote most of the accounts of his reign, and they had a vested interest in slandering the memory of the king who they'd deposed and murdered. His comment "Serfs you were born, serfs you will remain", if it is genuine, can be seen as a bitter statement of defeat. The system was too strong, the power of the aristocracy too absolute at that time, for any prospect of change. Yet change did come, gradually as the country prospered during Richard's later reign and in the following century. The peasants were able to demand better wages and conditions as the country had a skills shortage, and when the wool trade started to take off there was a boost in living conditions and the middle classes were born. Richard II encouraged literacy and education and the translation of scripture into English, empowering ordinary people. Money saved by halting the war with France was spent on culture and the arts and sciences as well as building projects. Pubs flourished! That's why so many were called The White Hart or the Rising Sun after Richard's royal emblems. The country got back on its feet again after the devastation of the Black Death. Richard II was a complex character and had his faults (what mediaeval monarch didn't!) but was far from being England's "worst king". That honour probably went to King John, though Henry VIII was one of the most brutal.

Élections dont change anything because YOU VOTE FOR THE RULING CLASSES!

Careful what you wish for. My own observation is that Britain was among the most fortunate of Europe's many states in how it evolved. #unintendedconsequences

Who knows how for sure how things will have turned out and yes we have had a most fortunate history but the class system that still resonates from Feudalism has a grip on opportunity in the UK. We are far from a meritocracy.

You must be related!

Brian Tyler Yeah you should find out the true story of the French Revolution. It was one of histories biggest blood baths that spared no one rich or poor. Then in the preceding carnage and mess, in desperation to restore order, the greatest irony it ended up being ruled by Napoleon as it's dictator.

@@roland20002000 Yes, but the French Revolutions had the "usual suspects" behind it.

Oh, yes. Just imagine what can happen in several states, when people realize they have been tricked by their "Oh, Great Leader".....

Been tried. The Brits then scoured Europe trying to find somebody they could tug their forelocks to a few years later.

Robespierre got it right !!

Little Sunflower "If your profile pic is anime then you get no opinion"

The guy in the armor looks like an "Empire" storm trooper in a "Star Wars" film, except more "metallic" and less "plastic". Obviously "evil", though, whether it be the 14th or the 21st Century.

Yeah, I don't think he was expecting Tony to start having a go.

@@kingkmtso5107 Hey, free speech is for everyone. Anime avatar people too. Unless you're a fascist/communist/tyrant in which case you deserve to be stood up to.

Boo! **Throws rotten cabbage**

What are the chances lol

you created this profile on purpose

You low life you..

Got any dice?

Work is the curse of the drinking classes.... Tried AdBlock, BTW...?

Don't like ads but you do like free UKposts. I was just being convinced that peasants weren't stupid then you went there.

Think about it...had the rebellion been successful the ads would have been worse !!

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Oh please, NO.

Television.

Lol. I was thinking that too. To be fair - I think Tony Robinson's point was just that we shouldn't believe cliches. I remember an American archaeologist in Egypt saying in a doco that when she uncovered a mummified body it was the first time she realised these people were "almost human, like us".

Psychologists are off the opinion that people have been getting more stupid since the 12th century. No sarcasm.

@@wolfthequarrelsome504 Settings aside the 'psychological replication crisis', I only recently learnt human brains are 20% smaller than 20,000 years ago. This might have something to do with domestication, since the same thing happens with dogs compared to wolves (and wolves are better problem solvers than dogs).

@@patrickpaganini That statement right there pretty much sums it up doesn't it.

Yas. Its a british thing. Idk what it is because im asian but when i went to primary school in manchester, the teacher always did that before handing out sheets of paper so i asked and apparently it was normal so -_-

oh right thanks idk why

Some people wet their finger tip for paper but definitely not when handing out food lol

@@erin5553 its certainly not a british thing at all. Im British and dont know anyone who would do that. Its bloody revolting. To say its a british thing is unbelievably stupid. Do you think the british dont know about manners or need lessons from asia? Dream on. Robinson is one man who happens to have revolting habits. Dont go assuming we are all like that.

@@erin5553 yes but you dont eat pieces of paper. Thats to seperate the paper and is totally different to liking your fingers before handing out food.

Or more like... urgh licking your fingers before handing out those cakes is gross

that's a long time to wait for justice

b. griffin - it was indeed. I used to live there, and he couldn't have chosen a grimmer place to die!

Wasn't he starved to death? Not a fun way to go, sic semper tyrannis.

Yep!

@@2HRTS1LOVE Either that or Henry IV had him killed.

The same exact thing...The king would have pretended to concede; Waited until the crowds dispersed, Called in reserves, and hunted them down like wolves...Their ONLY OPTION to keep their heads, was to kill the king, AND his men...

I'm not entirely sure that they were ever prepared to do that. As that "benevolent dictator" Napoleon so aptly put it: "Religion is what keeps the Poor from Killing the Rich." As true today as then.