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Historical person
1492–1549
Robert Kett was a Norfolk landholder who became leader of the 1549 uprising against enclosure and local abuses. He organised a large rebel camp at Mousehold Heath, helped formulate demands for reform and was executed after royal forces defeated the rebellion at Dussindale.
In Tim Holden’s Spirals of Fate, when Robert Kett becomes involved in a local dispute at Wymondham, resistance spreads beyond the destruction of fences and gathers thousands of labourers, artisans and small farmers. C. J. Sansom’s Tombland is set in the spring of 1549, Matthew Shardlake is serving Lady Elizabeth when she sends him to Norwich to investigate the murder of a distant relation from her mother’s family.
Series
The Shardlake Series follows Matthew Shardlake, a London barrister with scoliosis whose legal work repeatedly draws him into murder investigations and affairs of state between 1537 and 1549. He begins as an idealistic supporter of religious reform and an agent of Thomas Cromwell, but the violence of the…
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