Wat Cluverius briefed three presidents, helped work out pacts at Camp David and in Oslo, led the Cleveland Council on World Affairs and spent decades working for peace. Time magazine called him a ...

The Peasants’ Revolt led by Wat Tyler in 1381 was sparked by a series of unpopular taxes. The first had been imposed four years earlier and demanded a groat (four pennies) from every adult. This was ...

A GENERATION has now grown up with Wat Tyler park, and the place occupies an affectionate spot in many lives and memories. So Basildon Council's plans for a facelift are a natural way to build on ...

In 1381, English serfs were restless. The country was still trying to rebound from The Black Death, which had wiped out a third of the population. Meanwhile, England was in a long war against France, ...

Listen to - killing of Tyler and conclusion. The Peasants' Revolt began in the Essex village of Fobbing in May 1381. It started with the arrival of a royal tax commissioner, John Bampton, enquiring ...

When Wat Tyler and his wife, Jane, gave $1 million to the Handel and Haydn Society to fund its chorus in perpetuity, he preferred to speak about the need for a variety of arts groups to prosper in ...

The green activists might be posh, says Ed West, but even the leaders of the Peasants' Revolt were "middle-class" by today's standards History records that in the year 2009, the peasants of England ...