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  • 20 - Socialism

  • from Part III - Politics
  • Edited by Peter Cane, Christ's College, Cambridge and Australian National University, H. Kumarasingham, University of Edinburgh
  • Book:
    The Cambridge Constitutional History of the United Kingdom
    Published online:
    12 August 2023
    Print publication:
    17 August 2023, pp 499-519

  • Summary

    The desire to end privilege and exploitation and to reconstitute society as a community of equals runs through Britain’s history, from the Peasants’ Revolt (and with little doubt from earlier than that) to modern times. The uprising which for a few weeks in the summer of 1381 set the south-east of England ablaze was a direct challenge to a system which was now piling upon feudal rents the taxes – above all the poll tax – demanded by an increasingly centralised state. The rebels’ immediate political objectives were limited.