A VERY BRIEF LEVELLERS BIBLIOGRAPHY FOR BEGINNERS

"The History of The Levellers". H.N. Brailsford. Probably one of the best histories. Edited by Christopher Hill. Hardback edition, The Cresset Press, 1961. Also a Paperback edition published by Spokesman Press.

"Freeborn John - The Biography of John Lilburne". Pauline Gregg. London 1st Ed. 1961; new Paperback edn. by Phoenix Press, 2000). The seminal work on John Lilburne and his party, the Levellers.

"Levellers All". David Lewis. Booklet - the illustrated story of the Leveller Movement during the English Civil War, published by WEA Oxford Levellers Branch. A really excellent publication for 8 to 80 year olds. For "Levellers' Days" and how they began - please read

"Levellers Day" - "25 Years of Annual Celebrations 1975-1999" Alan Hicks reminisces... (on the 'Levellers' website).

"The World Turned Upside Down" (Radical ideas during the English revolution). Christopher Hill. (Penguin, 1972) - an important work by a great British 17C Historian (a must for 17th C. addicts).

"The Many-Headed Hydra". Peter Linebaugh & Marcus Rediker, 2001. A history of the role of the dispossessed in the making of the modern world from Europe to America and back again since the early 17th C. Lots of material on the effects of the Levellers.

"The English Levellers", ed. Andrew Sharp (Cambridge Texts in the History of Political Thought, Cambridge University Press, 1998). Excellent introduction and selection of texts.

"Radicalism in the English Revolution 1640-1660". F.D. Dow (Historical Association Studies, Blackwells, 1985). (Pamphlet). Excellent references and bibliography. Very good short study focusing on contribution of radical political and religious ideas to the intellectual maelstrom of the English revolution.

"1649: The Crisis of the English Revolution". Brian Manning (1992, London, Bookmarks). A very important work. Please read it. and

"The English People and the English Revolution". Brian Manning (1991, Bookmarks). (as above).

"Radical Christian Writings" (A Reader). Ed. by Andrew Bradstock & Christopher Rowland. (Blackwell Publishing, 2002). Great for Christian radical reformers like the Levellers.

"Comrade Jacob", David Caute (Andre Deutsch, 1961). A gripping read - good novel about the Diggers, Winstanley and St. George's Hill. (Out of print; if you find a copy, hang on to it!).

For Levellers in Burford - look at "The Burford Records - A Study in Minor Town Government" , R.H. Gretton, 1920, Oxford, Clarendon Press (pp.233-256).

THE THOMASON COLLECTION in the British Library Perfect Occurences Calendar of State Papers Domestic The Impartial Intelligencer The Kingdoms Weekly Intelligencer Mercurius Electicus The Moderate Intelligencer (all very important for Leveller researchers - primary sources)

Any other works by

Christopher Hill

Pauline Gregg

Margaret James

D.W. Petegorsky

Keith Thomas

Ann Hughes

John Morrill

John Walter

Haller & Davies

A.L. Morton

Brian Manning

G.E. Aylmer

Prof. MacPherson

also Joseph Frank, "The Levellers". Cambridge, Mass. USA, 1955.

Don M. Wolfe, "Leveller Manifestoes", London, 1967,

Don M. Wolfe, "Leveller Manifestoes of the Puritan Revolution" (Humanities Press, New York USA)

"Constitutional Documents of the Puritan Revolution". (Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1st. ed. 1958).