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Tyler, Wat
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Tyler, Wat (d. 1381). The most famous leader of the
Peasants' Revolt in 1381. He may have worked as a tiler in Essex; he was said to have served with Richard Lyons, a wealthy London merchant in France. He first emerged as a major leader in Kent at the end of the first week in June 1381, seizing Canterbury on 10 June and heading the march to London. On 15 June he was the spokesman at Smithfield. His demands were radical. The young king Richard II ordered the mayor, John Walworth, to arrest Tyler, and in a struggle he was killed.
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THE MANY ROLES OF WAT TYLER.
Magazine article from: History Today; 7/1/2001; ; 700+ words
; ...collective political memory than Wat Tyler. The leader of the 1381 Peasants...the city, Richard Whittington. Wat Tyler probably commands greater name recognition...medieval aesthetic of Pugin and Scott, Wat Tyler clashes with the William Morris wallpaper...
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Wat H. Tyler, 91 Of Lincoln; heating contractor
Newspaper article from: The Boston Globe; 1/30/1996; 415 words
; Wat Henry Tyler of Lincoln, an oil heating contractor and owner of the Wat Tyler Co., died of heart failure in his home...of Massachusetts. He later founded the Wat Tyler Co., a primary distributor of Shell fuel...
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Loyal Subjects? Exhibiting the Hero of James Northcote's Death of Wat Tyler
Magazine article from: Visual Culture in Britain; 1/1/2007; ; 700+ words
; ...largescale canvas of the Death of Wat Tyler (Figure 1). One of a number of...positions surrounding The Death of Wat Tyler (N0.154), a Portrait of a Gentleman...behind the title. In the case of Wat Tyler, however, the typically brief system...
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THE CLIMATE CAMPERS Wat Tyler would have felt at home among the 'fluffys' The green activists might be posh, says Ed West, but even the leaders of the Peasants' Revolt were 'middle-class' by today's standards
Newspaper article from: The Sunday Telegraph London; 8/30/2009; ; 700+ words
; ...last Wednesday, the activists chose the location where Wat Tyler led the Peasants' Revolt in 1381. Let us hope history...any taxman, cleric or foreigner they could find, and Tyler was stabbed to death by Sir William Walworth, the Lord...
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Letter: Before Wat Tyler
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London; 7/16/1994; ; 285 words
; Sir: Your question (Letters caption, 13 July) whether Wat Tyler was the first Christian socialist may be answered shortly - no, he wasn't. John Ball, who was executed in 1381, travelled...
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In the footsteps of Wat Tyler
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London; 9/18/1995; ; 700+ words
; ...was armed, aggressive and versed in military skills. When the mob, enthused by the preachings of John Ball and led by Wat Tyler, seized London in 1381, it was a force that had been galvanised in the wars with France. "When Adam delved and Eve...
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Wat, no revolting peasants?(News)
Newspaper article from: Daily Post (Liverpool, England); 10/20/2001; 308 words
; ...EXHIBITION: Actor Trevor Cleaver, playing the part of Wat Tyler, 14th Century revolutionary, waiting to greet visitors...EXHIBITION: Actor Trevor Cleaver, playing the part of Wat Tyler, 14th Century revolutionary, waiting to greet visitors...
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Garry Bushell on the Box: Wat a lot of patriots!(Features)
Newspaper article from: The People (London, England); 4/28/2002; 338 words
; ...films and English history - from military victories to uprisings like the Peasants' Revolt (most New Labour MPs think Wat Tyler is a magazine for D-I-Y kitchen fitters...) B Taylor of Hullbridge, Essex, wins 50 bottles of Spitfire beer...
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Fuel Crisis: The Protesters: The men with the mobiles: selfish rabble or latter-day Wat Tylers?
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London; 9/14/2000; ; 700+ words
; ...demonstrators who show no concern about bringing the country to a halt; to others they are folk heroes in the mould of Wat Tyler. Yesterday ministers were mumbling with frustration about the men who had shaken them by organising blockades and rolling...
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Tyler, Too: A Labor Leader Who Made Songs That Made History
Newspaper article from: Forward; 5/4/2001; ; 700+ words
; Tyler, Gus Forward 05-04-2001 TYLER, TOO: A Labor Leader Who Made Songs That Made History There...It was the marching song of the peasantry led in battle by Wat Tyler. About two hundred years later, when the German peasants rose...
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Wat Tyler
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Wat Tyler d. 1381, English rebel. His given name...but the trouble soon spread to Kent, where Tyler was chosen as leader. The rebels seized...unsuccessful attempt to interview Richard II , Tyler led the mob into the city, where it plundered...
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Tyler, Wat
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to British History
Tyler, Wat (d. 1381). The most famous leader of the Peasant's Revolt in 1381, Tyler was a man of obscure origins. He may have...ordered the mayor, John Walworth, to arrest Tyler, and in a struggle he was killed. A man...
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Peasants' Revolt
Book article from: A Dictionary of British History
...treasurer, and others. Radical demands were made by Wat Tyler , one of the peasant leaders, at Smithfield: serfdom...of the church should be distributed among the people. Wat Tyler was killed at this meeting. Resistance elsewhere in the...
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Richard II
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
...one of his uncles. In 1381, during the revolt led by Wat Tyler, Richard showed his leadership potential by going out to meet the rebels and pacifying them after Tyler was killed. After his marriage on Jan. 20, 1382, to...
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Kent
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...pilgrims such as Chaucer described in the Canterbury Tales. The region was intimately associated with the rebellions of Wat Tyler, Jack Cade, and Sir Thomas Wyatt. The coast was heavily fortified during the two World Wars. In 1974, Kent was reorganized...
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