July 27, 2025

EARLY EPISODE: The English Peasants' Revolt: Part 1

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Part 1/3

Peasants in Essex and Kent rise up after multiple tax hikes and one too many laws are written regulating their hats, shoes, and diets. Soon, London would burn.

Sources:

Dan Jones. Summer of Blood: Peasants' Revolt Of 1381

Alastair Dunn. The Peasants' Revolt: England's Failed Revolution of 1381

Andrew Prescott. The Hand of God: The Suppression of the Peasants' Revolt

John Hatcher. Plague, Population, and the English Economy, 1348-1530

Comments (50)

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Major Dork Thorklestein, HonFRS · September 8, 2026

The new Andrew Garfield movie "The Uprising" is based on this revolt.

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Bones · July 26, 2026

Lost my shit at turkey teeth 😂😂😂

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Graeme Ellis · August 22, 2025

Ironically Joe is right about the “Sovereign Citizens” movement in Canada, one of the first high profile cases up here involving them was a custody battle in Waterloo, Ontario that resulted in a dramatic arrest video.

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Emma Anarchee · August 20, 2025

Olive Drab Right pocket

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Marjorie Zeager · August 13, 2025

Fuck you man, LOST is good, the ending makes sense if you were paying attention

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Raehan Durlabhji · July 29, 2025

Chicagos mayor is now Brandon Johnson who is also universally hated

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Demagogue604 · July 29, 2025

St. Elsewhere is the show, from the 80's.

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Olafo Waffle · July 29, 2025

Tom is thinking about the Newhart. In this series finale Bob newhart's character from his titular show in the '70s wakes up and tells his wife about the dream he was having.

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Hugh Crosthwait · July 31, 2025

Could be Dallas too

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Dr. J · July 29, 2025

Old slang for pocketwatch is “fob,” “fob” rhymes with “kettle and hob,” and the rhyming part gets dropped, leaving us with “kettle” for watch. Doug the Donkey is crying into their white Monster because some legionnaire knows this.

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Real-Life NPC · July 28, 2025

Icelandic folklore has an item to simulate "grots in my scrot". It's called nábrók (or necropants).

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Jonathan Grafton · July 28, 2025

Family Courts Union: ICU in potato country.

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Noblese Oblahaj · July 28, 2025

John Gaunt of Ghosts

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Noblese Oblahaj · July 28, 2025

Gaunt's Grotes

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Noblese Oblahaj · July 28, 2025

All Cops Are Buboes, lance the police

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Shamus Hewitt · July 28, 2025

Lions Led By Death Note strikes again!

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Will · July 28, 2025

Ye olde djent hurt my head

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Brandon O'Hara · July 28, 2025

When the revolution comes, where will the Uncs hide?

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Kaiju and Chill · July 28, 2025

The strippers dance at The Naughty Ham

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William Shackelford · July 28, 2025

That outhouse had to be smelling wild after those peasants finally got the first taste of red meat and dairy

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Thomas Layton · July 28, 2025

I wonder if Reverend Ball was an ancestor of Sargent big balls

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Em Gravesong · July 28, 2025

"Does it look like Catman cares? Catman doesn't give a fuck!"

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mumbles march · July 28, 2025

St. Elsewhere ??

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CEA · July 28, 2025

Speaking as a Chicagoan, I’m grateful Lightfoot’s been out of office for a few years now. The new mayor is only marginally better, but it’s better than nothing, I think?

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Mildly invested · July 28, 2025

Manor lords brain taking over part way… I simply would have my taxes low and food diversity high to maintain a 70% approval for high family migration and sell the surplus goods from over production until I either crash the price of iron ingots or the game. Are these nobles stupid?

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Mildly invested · July 28, 2025

Only time my peasants get mad is when I cheap out on barley and malt imports during winter

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Hammerthrust Von Sexron · July 28, 2025

I’m 42 and like military history podcasts. What is a D squared?

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Courtney Minick · July 28, 2025

Delighted to have two plague eps in a row

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Loquin Britton-Herndon · July 28, 2025

I feel like the whole Robin Hood legend is a noble stealing valor from these dudes

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Hugh Crosthwait · July 29, 2025

In early Robin Hood stories (first written ones from mid 1400s, but based on much older oral traditions) Robin wasn't a noble. Only in the late 1500s was it decided that cool characters shouldn't be peasants

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LeobaL · July 28, 2025

We have Sovereign Citizens in Australia too. I'm honestly not sure how they work in Australia because of different Constitutions but fuckwits are fuckwits wherever you go.

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Drain-Bamage · August 5, 2025

*across the plane

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Markus D · July 28, 2025

It took me a solid minute to realize that Tom started singing "Killing Me Softly with his Song" because you guys were riffing on Wyclef Jean. I genuinely somehow forgot that The Fugees recorded the possibly best-known but least-good version of that song.

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have you heard the word of Maidens of the Fall? · July 28, 2025

1331 means this takes place 41 years before my DAV20 campaign huh!

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Mutual Aid Miniatures · July 28, 2025

Re: Turing to quote Pat The Bunny "Malcom X Never Lived to See the government fall but the post office made him a stamp. And that's the best you can hope for if you never give up your enemies will teach your corpse to dance."

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Al · July 27, 2025

Medieval blue tunic worker.

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Hey mind your business, name's not important · July 27, 2025

Tom, the US already Klarnaed an entire war, Joe and Nate bothed served it.

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Universally Idiotic · July 27, 2025

I hope y'all cover the Diggers in the English Civil War at some point

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J · July 27, 2025

St Elsewhere

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june · July 27, 2025

"taxing me softly" and the LLBD hanky code were both incredible bits

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Its Quinn And Taco · July 27, 2025

I would 100% wear a Saosin tunic if you made one!!

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Adam Barker-wyatt · July 27, 2025

The book After the Black Death by George Huppert is a really good read I'd recommend. I don't agree with it all but it's a great Marxist social history that focuses on economic and social realities for ordinary people in the period.

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K W · July 28, 2025

Read it in grad school and I agree.

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Noblese Oblahaj · July 27, 2025

You turn on the porn blocker and they burn the bloody castle down

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Matt · July 27, 2025

Hey some of us have priorities

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19ZXB Donkey brains · July 27, 2025

I truly love your medieval work. One of these days, you'll get Dan Jones on. Maybe even a long series with Jones and Wyman. That'd be nuts.

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Andrew Ashe · July 27, 2025

Wat Tyler shit? Y'all could have at least done it in the relevant area.

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Jsuman · July 27, 2025

WOOO series! Love the series' thanks for another one.

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NowhereMan661 · July 27, 2025

There are few things cooler than a Peasants Revolt. They're basically medieval Revolutions. Critical support to angry farmers with pitchforks and torches.

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Alex Duggan · July 27, 2025

Of course we're revolting, we're English 😏