The Levellers (In Our Time)
1647 · Resource
Misha Glenny and guests discuss the group which came to be known as the Levellers and emerged during what would become arguably one of the bloodiest and most turbulent periods of English history. After the First English Civil War, the Levellers started calling for reforms to achieve legal and social equality. They pushed for a new constitution, extended franchise, popular sovereignty, and religious toleration.
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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)