• Gerrard Winstanley (baptised 19 October 1609 – 10 September 1676) was an English Protestant religious reformer, political philosopher, and activist during...
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    programme resembling what would later be called agrarian socialism. Gerrard Winstanley and William Everard, amongst many others, were known as True Levellers...
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  • Dean Winstanley, English darts player Eric Winstanley, English footballer Gerrard Winstanley, 17th-century English religious reformer Henry Winstanley, 17th-century...
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    offers racing simulators and driving experiences. The memorial to Gerrard Winstanley, located close to the railway station, was unveiled in December 2000...
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  • Winstanley is a 1975 British black-and-white film about social reformer and writer Gerrard Winstanley. It was made by Kevin Brownlow and Andrew Mollo...
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    in the English of the time as a 'pamphlet') published in 1652 by Gerrard Winstanley, a participant in the Diggers movement. In the book he argued that...
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  • The first was Gerrard Winstanley (1609–1676), a linen draper who led the small movement of the Diggers during the Commonwealth. Winstanley and his followers...
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    briefly imprisoned in Kingston, Surrey, for causing a disturbance, and Gerrard Winstanley wrote Truth Lifting up its Head above Scandals in his defence. In...
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    an idea advanced prominently by critic George de Lord. By 1687, Gerrard Winstanley said Chapman's had been supplanted as the pre-eminent translation...
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    musicians to celebrate the life, ideas and influence of the Wigan-born, Gerrard Winstanley, founder of the Diggers (True Levellers) Movement. Recent[when?] headliners...
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  • known as "Levellers and Diggers") is a 17th-century English ballad by Gerrard Winstanley, a protest song about land rights inspired by the Diggers movement...
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  • Christian anarchism found one of its most articulate exponents in Gerrard Winstanley, who was part of the Diggers movement. He published a pamphlet, The...
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  • and wealth redistribution and subsidized grain to help the poor. Gerrard Winstanley, who founded the Diggers movement in the United Kingdom François-Noël...
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    future political constitution of England. In 1649 the Diggers, led by Gerrard Winstanley, established their communal settlement at St. George's Hill near Weybridge...
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    Diggers took their name from the original English Diggers led by Gerrard Winstanley and sought to create a mini-society free of money and capitalism....
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  • action, and a Treasons Act was passed against them in 1649. Led by Gerrard Winstanley, Diggers wanted an even more coercively equal society than the Levellers...
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    2007. After this, Mollo and Brownlow began another project, Winstanley, about Gerrard Winstanley and the Diggers' commune following the English Civil War...
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  • groupings in the English Civil War supported this idea, especially Gerrard Winstanley's Diggers, who espoused clear communistic and agrarianist ideals. Oliver...
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  • the poorest Peasants." — Abiezer Coppe, A Fiery Flying Roll (1649). Gerrard Winstanley, a leader of another English dissenting group called the Diggers,...
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  • sins before entering into Heaven. Between 1648-1697 English activist Gerrard Winstanley, writer Richard Coppin, and dissenter Jane Leade, each taught that...
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  • (April–June 1974). "Digger no Millenarian: The Revolutionizing of Gerrard Winstanley". Journal of the History of Ideas. 36 (2). Philadelphia, Pennsylvania:...
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  • 22-year-old Elizabeth Short Winstanley (1975) – British biographical drama film about social reformer and writer Gerrard Winstanley 21 Hours at Munich (1976)...
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    Stedman, (1870–1918), Surrey county cricketer, was born in Cobham. Gerrard Winstanley, (1609–1676), reformer, lived in Cobham from 1643 and was churchwarden...
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  • Diggers took their name from the original English Diggers led by Gerrard Winstanley and sought to create a mini-society free of money and capitalism....
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  • Olier (1608–1657) John Reeve (1608–1658) Thomas Totney (1608–1659) Gerrard Winstanley (c.1609-55) Benjamin Whichcote (1609–83) Ludowicke Muggleton (1609–98)...
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    In 1593, the English political philosopher Gerrard Winstanley's parents, Edward and Isabell Winstanley, originally from Wigan, were married in Prescot...
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  • the Levellers and the Diggers although only the latter group under Gerrard Winstanley promoted a propertyless, communist society. European writers began...
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    Thornett Peter Tatchell Alex Tyrrell Derek Wall Raymond Williams Gerrard Winstanley Environment portal Socialism portal Critique of political economy...
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  • the Presbyterian interest, engaging also with Baptists, and with Gerrard Winstanley, the universalist. In print he was a moderate, fair by the standards...
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  • Whewell Jamie Whyte David Wiggins Bernard Williams Timothy Williamson Gerrard Winstanley John Wisdom Ludwig Wittgenstein Richard Wollheim Crispin Wright Frances...
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