levellers

1660, as London sung the ballad “When the King enjoys his own again” for Charles II, came the long-awaited Restoration of the House of Stuart. After 11 years, England, Scotland,and Ireland once again have a monarch. While the reign of the House of Stuart wouldn't last long beyond the sons of...

It seems that the ideas they put forward were somewhat popular with the rank and file of the new model army (NMA) and that with some changes they could have taken over England. What I personally find very interesting about them are the ideas put forward in "An Agreement of the People". A...

But providence doth often so dispose. - Oliver Cromwell July 2nd, 1644. Richard reckoned it had been about an hour since the battle started when the Bradford company were called to reinforce the left. The men had almost immediately begun to speculate on what that might mean for the course of...

Was there any chance for the English Commonwealth to take a democratic-ish form, following the Levellers' Agreement of the People, instead of becoming a military dictatorship under Oliver Cromwell? What would happen to Scotland and Ireland? What about the rest of Europe? Would there still be an...

A lesser known part of the English Civil War involved the emergence of the Diggers and Levellers, effectively what would today be called Left-Wing Radicals. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Model_Army#Second_English_Civil_War https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Levellers...