Andrew Garfield plays a ploughman in The Uprising – but the real medieval rebels weren’t all peasants
The Uprising is the first film inspired by the peasants’ revolt of the summer of 1381 – the largest popular rebellion in medieval England. The revolt was triggered by the heavy-handed administration of a poll tax that required a fixed sum to be collected from all adults. The tax was levied to financ
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