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Juliet Barker: 2 ideas worth knowing

2 ideas from Juliet Barker, each explained in a minute and credited to the original work. Free on Savvy.

• Outnumbered English longbowmen crushed France's mounted knights

  At Agincourt in 1415, Henry V's exhausted, heavily outnumbered army faced a French force several times its size. Mud, a narrow field, and thousands of English and Welsh longbowmen …

  — Juliet Barker, Agincourt: Henry V and the Battle That Made England

• A poll tax pushed medieval England's poorest into open revolt against the crown

  In 1381, a hated poll tax and simmering resentment from the Black Death's aftermath drove thousands of commoners, led by Wat Tyler, to march on London, storm the Tower, and execute…

  — Juliet Barker, 1381: The Year of the Peasants' Revolt

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