The Putney Debates (In Our Time)
1647 · Resource
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the Putney Debates. For several weeks in late 1647, after the defeat of King Charles I in the first hostilities of the Civil War, representatives of the New Model Army and the radical Levellers met in a church in Putney to debate the future of England. There was much to discuss: who should be allowed to vote, civil liberties and religious freedom.
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Around 1647
- Thirty Years' War (1618)
- Reign of Peter the Great (1682)
- Siege of Vienna (1683) (1683)
- Great Plague of London (1665)
- Age of Enlightenment (1685)
- Salem witch trials (1692)
- English Civil War (1642)
- Glorious Revolution (1688)
- Newton's Principia Mathematica (1687)
- Edo period (1603)