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The Great Revolt of 1381 wasn’t all peasants

An image of the 1381 revolt.
An image of the 1381 revolt. Photograph: Chronicle/Alamy

Please stop referring to the Great Revolt of 1381 as the Peasants’ Revolt (Report, 12 November). The majority of those who took part in the highly coordinated operation weren’t peasants, and they wielded swords, not pitchforks. Juliet Barker’s brilliant book England, Arise sets the record straight. Whose side is the Guardian on?
Mike Lake
Trusley, Derbyshire

• So the Magic Circle expelled Sophie Lloyd for “deliberate deception” (Magic Circle tries to track down first female member – who posed as a man, 11 November). Surely, they should have expelled the entire membership.
Mark Walford
London

• On the language that forecasters use (Letters, 11 November), how about letting the weather do its own thing, rather than controlling it? This week you quoted Jonathan Vautrey of the Met Office as saying “we’re introducing some much fresher conditions” (England has 10th of expected sunshine amid ‘anticyclonic gloom’, Met Office says, 10 November).
Chris Bazlinton
Farnham, Essex

• Recent letters on the language used by weather forecasters have omitted the most irritating example: “organised rain”.
Martin Pilgrim
Canterbury

• All this focus on assisted dying (Report, 13 November), but we are getting silence again on assisted living. Where is the focus on social care funding and integration with healthcare?
Richard Bryant-Jefferies
Epsom, Surrey

• The short version of Imogen West-Knights’ advice (Deadlines may be vital, but so is procrastination. I’ll tell you why … soon, 13 November) has to be “Don’t delay, procrastinate now”.
Steve Kibble
Rudyard, Staffordshire

• Do you have a photograph you’d like to share with Guardian readers? If so, please click here to upload it. A selection will be published in our Readers’ best photographs galleries and in the print edition on Saturdays.

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