Riots and Rebels: Popular Protest in Britain from the Peasants' Revolt to Extinction Rebellion

by Nick Rennison

In 1381, a large army of people marched through the south-east of England to London, demanding an end to unfair taxation and threatening the rule of the boy-king, Richard II. During the eighteenth century, food riots, riots in protest at land enclosure, and riots targeting religious groups and foreigners regularly occurred. In the following century, mass gatherings demanded reform of the electoral system which allowed only a tiny proportion of the...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0857306073
• ISBN13: 9780857306074
• Release Date: August 2025
• Publisher: Oldcastle Books
• Length: 256 Pages