‘In 1649, to St George’s Hill, a ragged band they called The Diggers came to show the people’s will, they defied the landlords, they defied the laws, they were the dispossessed reclaiming what was theirs. We come in peace, they said, to dig and sow, we come to work the lands in common and to make the waste ground grow, this earth divided we will make whole so it will be a common treasury for all.’
In his latest book, The Leveller Revolution, author, historian, broadcaster, and Research Fellow at Goldsmith’s, University of London, John Rees, tells a story that reasserts the role of ordinary people in the history of democracy.
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