• Gerrard Winstanley (baptised 19 October 1609 – 10 September 1676) was an English Protestant religious reformer, political philosopher, and activist during...
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    political dissidents in England, associated with 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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  • 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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    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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  • 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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  • 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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    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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    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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    took their name from the original English Diggers (1649–50) led by Gerrard Winstanley, and they sought to create a mini-society free of money and capitalism...
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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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    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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  • 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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  • Whewell Jamie Whyte David Wiggins Bernard Williams Timothy Williamson Gerrard Winstanley John Wisdom Ludwig Wittgenstein Richard Wollheim Crispin Wright Frances...
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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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  • 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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  • The year 1649 in music involved some significant events. Gerrard Winstanley – "Diggers' Song" Melchior Franck – Davidischer Traur- und Trostgesang for...
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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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  • their landowners, and shares a lot of lyrical themes with the 1649 Gerrard Winstanley composition "Diggers' Song", which was also recorded by Chumbawamba...
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    liberties that could be used against governments they disagreed with. Gerrard Winstanley, the leader of the more extreme Diggers, stated "the best lawes that...
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    likes of Francis Trigge, John Hare, John Lilburne, John Warr, and Gerrard Winstanley of the radical Diggers, the latter of whom even called for an end...
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  • adding a few more. Like Lodowick Muggleton and the Diggers' leader Gerrard Winstanley, Coppe combined an egalitarian social vision with an apocalyptic religious...
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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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  • his sexual promiscuity, for which he was repudiated by the Digger Gerrard Winstanley. Clarkson considered himself to be the truest of the radical religious...
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    assassination Peasants' Revolt Libertarianism United States Bill of Rights Gerrard Winstanley Norman yoke Pre-Marxist communism Foxley, Rachel (2013). The Levellers:...
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    first verifiable and undisputed believer in universal salvation is Gerrard Winstanley, author of The Mysterie of God Concerning the Whole Creation, Mankinde...
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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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  • early agrarian socialism of English True Levellers or Diggers such as Gerrard Winstanley, the French Physiocrats (especially Quesnay and Turgot), British classical...
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