Levellers Day (Burford, Oxon - from 10.30am)
Saturday, 14 May - 10:30am - 3:30pm
Venue: Burford Recreation Ground, Burford, Oxfordshire
Directions: Just off the A40 and about 18 miles west of Oxford
The party will have a stall at this event
The party will have a stall at this event
The World Turned Upside Down
The English Civil War was not fought to establish democracy,
but the war and the ideas it unleashed gave rise to a movement called the
Levellers. One of the many demands that the Levellers made was a demand for
manhood suffrage. This alone made them revolutionary, regardless of any other
ideas they held. The whole idea was outrageous to the 17th century. General
Ireton summed up the fears of the ruling classes when he claimed that political
democracy would lead to economic democracy. This fear has not yet been
realised.
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