Levellers Association

LEVELLERS ASSOCIATION

Call for sponsors of a Levellers Association

We are currently organising the launch of a Levellers Association which would aim to popularise the history and heritage of the Levellers and other radicals in the English Revolution.

It would seek to involve students, researchers and academics with amateur historians, 17th century re-enactors, publishers, artists, battlefield preservation societies, trade unionists, and campaigners who want to deepen our knowledge of the English Revolution.

The project is at an early stage but current sponsors include:

Tony Benn,

Jeremy Corbyn MP,

Geoffrey Robertson QC, author of The Tyrannicide Brief

Jim Holstun, author of Ehud's Dagger

Ann Hughes, Professor of Early Modern History at Keele University

Neil Faulkner, editor of Military Times

Andrew Murray, Director of Communications for Unite the Union

Dr John Gurney, Visiting Fellow Newcastle University

Caryl Churchill, playwright.

Rev. Hammer, songwriter

Dr Rachel Foxley, University of Reading

Philip Baker, Senior Research Officer at the Centre for Metropolitan History

Dr Ariel Hessayon, Goldsmiths, University of London

This letter is being circulated on history, academic, trade union and activists lists in the hope of widening he sponsorship base of the project. Please do let us know if you would like to become a sponsor of the Levellers Association.

We are aiming to hold an initial organising meeting on Saturday 22nd May, at 1pm in Room B104, the School of Oriental and African Studies, Thornhaugh Street, London WC1H 0XG (nearest tube Russell Square). If you would like to attend or if you have any ideas that you would like discussed at the meeting please do let us know.Please respond to this email address: info@theleveller.org.uk

We hope that people can help us establish a website, newsletter, conferences, education packs, publications, artistic events and so on...but there is absolutely no obligation on individual sponsors to do any of this.

Thanks for taking the time to look at this.

Best wishes

John Rees, Goldsmiths College, Ben Craggs, Goldsmiths College, Tehmeena Bax, Queen Mary College

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