This paper is a survey of newspaper articles published in 1649 concerning an apparently trivial event – the colonisation of common land in Surrey in April 1649 by a group of individuals who came to be known as Diggers, and the subsequent establishment of an agrarian society based on the principle of collective ownership. In particular, it seeks to explain why contemporary newspapers made use of this story and reported on the Diggers’ communistic experiment as a threat – the manifestation of a large-scale protest movement liable to undermine social and political order and jeopardise the newly-founded Commonwealth. It shows how the press and the establishment interacted during the English Revolution, when spreading the written word greatly fa...
Press historians argue that the press boom of 1695 transformed the way in which English men and wome...
Original article can be found at : http://www.maney.co.uk/ Copyright Maney PublishingThe Luddite mac...
Preprint submitted to Media History, 2012.The Mold Riots of 1869 came at a time of social and cultur...
The Diggers were small groups that appeared after the English Civil War who cultivated common land w...
This is the first full-length, modern study of the Diggers or ?True Levellers?, who were among the m...
The years 1649-1650 witnessed the emergence of two prominent radical sects of the British Civil Wars...
This is the text of a professorial inaugural lecture given at the University of Sussex in October 20...
The events of the early summer of 1381 confronted the English government with a social and political...
Since their rediscovery in the nineteenth century—first by Liberal, Socialist, and Marxist historian...
A large proportion of the English population in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries had some acc...
The organisation of manufacturing work, known as proto-industrialisation, was in operation in the we...
Coming from Manchester in 1817, the march of the 'Blanketeers' has generally been taken to be someth...
This article considers how struggles over land shaped the process of “anglicization” in colonial Pen...
The growth of public and academic interest in Englishness has raised important questions about post-...
Drawing on a wide variety of published and unpublished sources, this article reconstructs a crucial ...
Press historians argue that the press boom of 1695 transformed the way in which English men and wome...
Original article can be found at : http://www.maney.co.uk/ Copyright Maney PublishingThe Luddite mac...
Preprint submitted to Media History, 2012.The Mold Riots of 1869 came at a time of social and cultur...
The Diggers were small groups that appeared after the English Civil War who cultivated common land w...
This is the first full-length, modern study of the Diggers or ?True Levellers?, who were among the m...
The years 1649-1650 witnessed the emergence of two prominent radical sects of the British Civil Wars...
This is the text of a professorial inaugural lecture given at the University of Sussex in October 20...
The events of the early summer of 1381 confronted the English government with a social and political...
Since their rediscovery in the nineteenth century—first by Liberal, Socialist, and Marxist historian...
A large proportion of the English population in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries had some acc...
The organisation of manufacturing work, known as proto-industrialisation, was in operation in the we...
Coming from Manchester in 1817, the march of the 'Blanketeers' has generally been taken to be someth...
This article considers how struggles over land shaped the process of “anglicization” in colonial Pen...
The growth of public and academic interest in Englishness has raised important questions about post-...
Drawing on a wide variety of published and unpublished sources, this article reconstructs a crucial ...
Press historians argue that the press boom of 1695 transformed the way in which English men and wome...
Original article can be found at : http://www.maney.co.uk/ Copyright Maney PublishingThe Luddite mac...
Preprint submitted to Media History, 2012.The Mold Riots of 1869 came at a time of social and cultur...