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147361452X

Now is the time.

Author: Bragg, Melvyn.

Publication year: 2015

Language: English

Media class: Hardback

Publisher: London : Sceptre, 2015.

ISBN: 147361452X 9781473614529 (hbk): 18.99

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At the end of May 1381, the 14-year-old King of England had reason to be fearful: the plague had returned, the royal coffers were empty and a draconian Poll Tax was being widely evaded. Yet Richard, bolstered by his powerful, admired mother, felt secure in his God-given right to reign. Within two weeks, the unthinkable happened: a vast force of common people invaded London, led by a former soldier, Walter Tyler, and the radical preacher John Ball, demanding freedom, equality and the complete uprooting of the Church and State. They believed they were rescuing the King from his corrupt ministers, and that England had to be saved. And for three intense, violent days, it looked as if they would sweep all before them. 'Now is the Time' depicts the events of the Peasants' Revolt on both a grand and intimate scale, vividly portraying its central figures and telling an archetypal tale of an epic struggle between the powerful and the apparently powerless.

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Rather gory subject matter so not a book for the faint hearted!Good historically based work of fiction.Given the relatively short timespan of the Peasants Revolt in 1381 perhaps a little longer than necessary.

23/11/15

johnwickens

West Sussex