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Referenced as a 'brilliant book' about the Peasants' Revolt. The hosts discuss how Barker calls it 'the Great Revolt' rather than the Peasants' Revolt, and quote her view that the rebels sought 'a radical political agenda, which if it had been implemented would have fundamentally transformed English society.' Also cited later for the example of Lake and Heath manor in Suffolk.

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Referenced as 'his biography of Richard II' when discussing the uniqueness of the 1381 revolt. Saul is quoted saying 'what happened in 1381 was altogether unique' and later 'the revolt of 1381 was not a movement of the poor and the downtrodden. It was a movement of the more ambitious and assertive in society.'