In 1381, thousands of English peasants rose up in one of the most dramatic uprisings of the Middle Ages. But what drove them to revolt? In this video, we break down the causes – from crushing ...

As late as the 17th century, an English author cautioned, “But if they be eaten raw, they require good wine … to help digestion.” That same century, as many as 100,000 oysters were ...

Her dazzling, jocular novel “The Pretender” recounts the journey of one John Collan, from his anonymous boyhood in a rural village to a claim, as Edward Plantagenet, on the English monarchy.

Jo Harkin has invented her own literary language with her dazzling novel “The Pretender” about Edward Plantagenet, a boy groomed for the English throne.

A Turkmen carpet exhibition, entitled 'Heavenly Beauty - Turkmen Carpet,' will be varnished on Tuesday at the National Museum of the Romanian Peasant. It will be open until March 31. ''The art of ...

The peasants had economic grievances, to be sure, but they also drew inspiration from the message of freedom, or “ Fryheit ” in German, being preached by theologian Martin Luther, who had ...

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Peasant revolts in China produced the fall of several dynasties. The Ming Dynasty that smashed the Mongol Empire in the 1350s put a poor peasant in power in China.

Medieval peasants worked only about 150 days in a year. The Church believed it was important to keep them happy with frequent, mandatory holidays. You have less holidays than a Medieval peasant.

The EFL’s stance is that more money should filter down through the English football pyramid to help its sustainability, a move which wouldn’t affect the Premier League’s success story.