{"id":1863,"date":"2025-11-22T10:39:48","date_gmt":"2025-11-22T10:39:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.socialisthistorysociety.co.uk\/?p=1863"},"modified":"2026-02-25T09:44:50","modified_gmt":"2026-02-25T09:44:50","slug":"the-german-peasants-war-of-1524-6-and-why-you-should-care-about-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.socialisthistorysociety.co.uk\/?p=1863","title":{"rendered":"The German Peasants\u2019 War of 1524-6 and why you should care about it"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Socialist History Society public meeting held on<br \/>\n<strong>Tuesday 24th February 2026\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/jubjhrfDlyY?si=nri6xZiVIRlVJZvj&amp;start=4\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>Lyndal Roper<\/strong> is Emeritus Regius Professor of History at the University of Oxford, the first woman to hold the post. She has written on women and the German Reformation, on witchcraft, and on the German reformer Martin Luther. Her most recent book is a history of the German Peasants\u2019 War, the biggest popular uprising in Western Europe before the French Revolution. Titled Summer of Fire and Blood, it won the Cundill Prize for 2025.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Socialist History Society public meeting held on Tuesday 24th February 2026\u00a0 Lyndal Roper is Emeritus Regius Professor of History at the University of Oxford, the first woman to hold the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1863","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-future-shs-meetings","category-meetings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.socialisthistorysociety.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1863","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.socialisthistorysociety.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.socialisthistorysociety.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.socialisthistorysociety.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.socialisthistorysociety.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1863"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.socialisthistorysociety.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1863\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1921,"href":"https:\/\/www.socialisthistorysociety.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1863\/revisions\/1921"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.socialisthistorysociety.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1863"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.socialisthistorysociety.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1863"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.socialisthistorysociety.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1863"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}