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This is the first full-length, modern study of the Diggers or 'True
Levellers', who were among the most remarkable of the radical
groups to emerge during the English Revolution of 1640-60. It was
in April 1649 that the Diggers, inspired by the teachings and
writings of Gerrard Winstanley, began their occupation of waste
land at St George's Hill in Surrey and called on all poor people to
join them or follow their example. Acting at a time of unparalleled
political change and heightened millenarian expectation, the
Diggers believed that the establishment of an egalitarian,
property-less society was imminent. The book establishes the local
origins of the Digger movement, and sets out to examine pre-civil
war social relations and social tensions in the parish of Cobham -
from where significant numbers of the Diggers came - and the impact
of civil war in the local community. It provides a detailed account
of the Surrey Digger settlements and of local reactions to the
Diggers, and it explores the spread of Digger activities beyond
Surrey. In chapters on the writings and career of Gerrard
Winstanley, it seeks to offer a reinterpretation of one of the
major thinkers of the English Revolution. This book should be of
interest to all those interested in England's
mid-seventeenth-century revolution and in the history of radical
movements.
This is the first full-length, modern study of the Diggers or 'True
Levellers', who were among the most remarkable of the radical
groups to emerge during the English Revolution of 1640-60. It was
in April 1649 that the Diggers, inspired by the teachings and
writings of Gerrard Winstanley, began their occupation of waste
land at St George's Hill in Surrey and called on all poor people to
join them or follow their example. Acting at a time of unparalleled
political change and heightened millenarian expectation, the
Diggers believed that the establishment of an egalitarian,
property-less society was imminent. The book establishes the local
origins of the Digger movement, and sets out to examine pre-civil
war social relations and social tensions in the parish of Cobham -
from where significant numbers of the Diggers came - and the impact
of civil war in the local community. It provides a detailed account
of the Surrey Digger settlements and of local reactions to the
Diggers, and it explores the spread of Digger activities beyond
Surrey. In chapters on the writings and career of Gerrard
Winstanley, it seeks to offer a reinterpretation of one of the
major thinkers of the English Revolution. This book should be of
interest to all those interested in England's
mid-seventeenth-century revolution and in the history of radical
movements. -- .
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