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

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

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