Fw: Gerrard Winstanley 400th Anniversary Meeting

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> --- On *Thu, 29/10/09, dave /<dmorris at onetel.com>/* wrote:
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>     From: dave <dmorris at onetel.com>
>     Subject: Gerrard Winstanley 400th Anniversary Meeting
>     To: "RaHNlist" <dmorris at onetel.com>
>     Date: Thursday, 29 October, 2009, 5:12 PM
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>         Gerrard Winstanley 400th Anniversary Meeting
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>           *Gerrard Winstanley 400th Anniversary Meeting
>           <http://feedblitz.com/r.asp?l=41997450&f=392714&u=10816069&c=2790083>*
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>     *A celebration of the work and ideas of
>     **GERRARD WINSTANLEY*
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>     7pm, Thursday 19th November 2009,
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>     Speakers: *Thomas Corns*, University of Bangor, co-author of a
>     biography of John Milton, and *Ann Hughes*, University of Keele,
>     author of The Causes of the English Civil War (1998)
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>     Venue: Russell Room, Conway Hall, Red Lion Square, London WC1
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>     Fortunately for posterity, there was among the Diggers a man of
>     rare talent and originality, Gerrard Winstanley, who has left
>     behind him in his voluminous writings a record of the faith and
>     beliefs with which he inspired this movement & Suddenly, in this
>     year [1648], his interest turned to politics and he wrote the most
>     characteristic of his books, /The New Law of Righteousness/, which
>     is in reality a Communist Manifesto written in the dialect of its
>     day. Throughout the next year, 1649-50, he was the life and pen of
>     the Diggers' adventure. When that failed, after writing /Fire in
>     the Bush/, a defence of his ideas addressed to the churches, he
>     published in 1652 the most mature of his books, /The Law of
>     Freedom in a Platform/. It was dedicated, in an eloquent and
>     plain-spoken address, to Cromwell, whom it summoned to lay the
>     foundations of a communist commonwealth. The sketch of a classless
>     society that follows is a deeply interesting blend of the radical
>     demo­cracy professed by the main body of the Levellers with the
>     communism of More's/ Utopia/ and a secularism that was
>     Winstanley's own.
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>     Source: */The Levellers and the English Revolution/*
>     <http://www.feedblitz.com/t2.asp?/392714/10816069/2790083/http://www.spokesmanbooks.com/acatalog/The_Levellers.html>
>     by *H. N. Brailsford* (Spokesman, £18)
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>     Tom Corns and Ann Hughes, two of the editors of a comprehensive
>     new collection of Winstanley s writings, will speak about
>     Winstanley s ideas and their relevance today.
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>     The event is *entirely free*. Refreshments will be provided.
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>     For further information see:
>     http://www.socialisthistorysociety.co.uk/
>     <http://www.feedblitz.com/t2.asp?/392714/10816069/2790083/http://www.socialisthistorysociety.co.uk/>
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>     http://www.conwayhall.org.uk/
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