Andy Wood is Reader in Social History at the School of History, University of East Anglia. His first book, The Politics of Social Conflict: the Peak Country, 1520-1770 (1999), was declared Proxime Accesitt in 1999 for the Royal Historical Society's Whitfield Prize.

Review of the hardback: '… brilliant study of the events of 1549 …' BBC History Magazine

• Acknowledgements; List of abbreviations; Preface; Introduction; Part I. Context: 1. The 1549 rebellions; 2. 'Precious bloody shedding': repression and resistance, 1549–1553; Part II. Political Language: 3. Speech, silence and the recovery of rebel voices; 4. Rebel political language; Part III. Consequences: 5. The decline of insurrection in later sixteenth- and early seventeenth-century England; 6. Memory, myth and representation: the later meanings of the 1549 rebellions; Bibliography; Index.

Andy Wood is Reader in Social History at the School of History, University of East Anglia. His first book, The Politics of Social Conflict: the Peak Country, 1520-1770 (1999), was declared Proxime Accesitt in 1999 for the Royal Historical Society's Whitfield Prize.

Review of the hardback: '… brilliant study of the events of 1549 …' BBC History Magazine

• Acknowledgements; List of abbreviations; Preface; Introduction; Part I. Context: 1. The 1549 rebellions; 2. 'Precious bloody shedding': repression and resistance, 1549–1553; Part II. Political Language: 3. Speech, silence and the recovery of rebel voices; 4. Rebel political language; Part III. Consequences: 5. The decline of insurrection in later sixteenth- and early seventeenth-century England; 6. Memory, myth and representation: the later meanings of the 1549 rebellions; Bibliography; Index.

Andy Wood is Reader in Social History at the School of History, University of East Anglia. His first book, The Politics of Social Conflict: the Peak Country, 1520-1770 (1999), was declared Proxime Accesitt in 1999 for the Royal Historical Society's Whitfield Prize.

Review of the hardback: '… brilliant study of the events of 1549 …' BBC History Magazine

• Acknowledgements; List of abbreviations; Preface; Introduction; Part I. Context: 1. The 1549 rebellions; 2. 'Precious bloody shedding': repression and resistance, 1549–1553; Part II. Political Language: 3. Speech, silence and the recovery of rebel voices; 4. Rebel political language; Part III. Consequences: 5. The decline of insurrection in later sixteenth- and early seventeenth-century England; 6. Memory, myth and representation: the later meanings of the 1549 rebellions; Bibliography; Index.