Today in Labor History May 30, 1381: Tax collector John Bampton sparked the Peasants’ Revolt in Brentwood, Essex. The mass uprising, also known as Wat Tyler’s Rebellion, or the Great Rising, began because of attempts to collect a poll tax. However, tensions were already high because of the economic misery and hunger caused by the Black Death pandemic of the 1340s, and the Hundred Years’ War. During the uprising, rebels burned public records and freed prisoners. King Richard II, 14 years old, hid in the Tower of London. Rebels entered the Tower and killed the Lord Chancellor and the Lord High Treasurer, but not the king. It took nearly six months for the authorities to suppress the Peasants’ Revolt. They slaughtered over 1,400 rebels. Roughly 600 years later, Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher tried again to impose a poll tax on Britain’s working class. It also sparked a revolt which brought an end both to the tax and Thatcher’s regime. Billy Bragg references Thatcher’s poll tax in his song, All You Fascists.

All You Fascists, by Billy Bragg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dWBeGK96pVQ

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Basel plague study finds young workers had highest death rates in 17th century outbreak

Burials from a 17th-century hospital in Basel offer a close look at who faced the highest risk during one of the city’s last plague outbreaks. The graves date to around 1665 to 1670, a period when plague returned to the region...

More information: https://archaeologymag.com/2026/04/basel-plague-study-17th-century-outbreak/

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The Black Death killed ~100 million people between 1347 and 1353, including half the population of London.
* Was the London experience representative?
* Impact of London evidence?

IHR lecture by Thomas Asbridge, 24 June: https://www.history.ac.uk/news-events/events/keene-london-lecture-26-black-death-london

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Planned engineered super-flu is coming.

Be alert.

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paracelsus arrived

Southern and Western Australia are suffering from a mouse plague with up to 8,000 mice per hectare.

This ABC story asks, "what does a mouse plague look like?"

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-05-24/visualising-australias-mouse-plague/106696622

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paracelsus who was

I think they mention some version of this in the Bible.

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The Lombard Invasion

The Lombard invasion of Byzantine Italy was a pivotal event in Venetian history.

The invasion, and the conquests that followed, led to an increased importance of the lagoon settlements, to a slow demise of Byzantine control in north-east Italy, to the establishment of a semi-independent church in the lagoons, and ultimately to Venetian statehood.

The Lombard invasion, and the subsequent migration of parts of the mainland residents into the lagoons, became a central part of the later Venetian national narrative — the stories they told to explain where they came from and who they were.

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Read more here: https://historywalksvenice.com/article/early-venice/the-lombard-invasion/