"The Great Rising is a re-interpretation of the revolt, the rebels and their often colourful leaders, and is the first new history for nearly one hundred years.

A stunningly good book on a revolt which came within a few minutes of changing our history utterly --totally absorbing.

This volume eschews general narrative history and consists of articles, most of which were presented to a conference organized in 1981 by the Past and Present S

This account of the "peasant revolt" of 1381 demonstrates that the rebellion was not an uncontrolled, inarticulate explosion of peasant resentment, but an infor