Peasants' Revolt saw 137x more Wikipedia readers than usual

What this article is

The Peasants' Revolt, also named Wat Tyler's Rebellion or the Great Uprising, was a major uprising across large parts of England in 1381. The revolt had various causes, including the socio-economic and political tensions generated by the Black Death in the 1340s, the high taxes resulting from the conflict with France during the Hundred Years' War, and instability within the local leadership of London. The revolt heavily influenced the course of the Hundred Years' War by deterring later Parliaments from raising additional taxes to pay for military campaigns in France.

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Where editors were working

Wikipedia editors made 20 edits to this article on 2026-07-17, concentrated in these sections. This is evidence about the surge, not an explanation of it.

• Entry to the city
• Protest and authority
• Economics
• Essex and Kent
• March on the capital
• Terminology

What changed that day

The article lost 147 characters on balance that day. The largest single addition was 4 characters to Protest and authority. See everything that changed on 2026-07-17 in Wikipedia's own diff view — that is where the reason for a surge is usually visible, written and sourced by the editors who were following the story.

Rose at the same time

1 other article that this one is connected to surged alongside it. What they have in common is left to you — the pageview record shows that attention moved together, not why.

• The Uprising (2026 film) Upcoming film by Paul Greengrass

How this was measured

Views are Wikimedia's own pageview counts for en.wikipedia, filtered to agent=user so automated traffic is excluded. The baseline is the median of the previous 60 days, which is used instead of the mean so that an earlier surge cannot flatten a later one. The multiple is the day's views divided by that median.