Levellers

Levellers

• Restoration Tragedy review - an experimental encounter between early music, punk and politics

  

  This celebration of 'the world turned upside down' is a perfect blend of folk, punk, and English radical history, writes John Rees

• Christmas 1641: 'the maddest Christmas that I ever saw'

  

  John Rees depicts one of the great popular mobilisations of the English Revolution, described by one eye-witness as ‘the maddest Christmas that ever I saw’

• This Christmas for the Leveller in your life: festive offer from Philosophy Football

  

  A new Philosophy Football T-Shirt features the Thomas Rainsborough quote 'The poorest that is in England hath a live to live as the greatest'

• Leveller! A political insult for all ages

  

  John Rees, author of the new book The Leveller Revolution, looks at the contemporary relevance of the Levellers

• 5 novels every revolutionary should read

  

  Some of the best pieces of fiction ever written about revolutionary experience are outlined by writer and historian John Rees

• The Leveller Revolution: Radical Political Organisation in England 1640-1650

  

  John Rees, The Leveller Revolution makes a powerful case that Leveller organisation during the English Revolution was essential to its success, finds Dominic Alexander

• The hidden spaces of struggle

  

  Space and place in the cityscape are battlegrounds, and we have to fight to hold them, argues Chris Bambery

• A light shines on the democratic deficit

  

  Caryl Churchill’s classic English revolution drama could not come at a better moment nor be performed in a better place, says John Rees

• Podcast: the Levellers and John Lilburne

  

  A podcast by Londonist Out Loud discussing the Levellers with John Rees

• John Lilburne: free-born 400 years ago…and still the man of the hour

  

  Saturday 14 March sees the Lilburne 400 conference in London. The Leveller leader should be remembered for many reasons, not least his commitment to building revolutionary organisation, says John Rees