Call for sponsors of a Levellers Association
We are currently organising the launch of a Levellers Association
which would aim to popularise the history and heritage of the
Levellers and other radicals in the English Revolution.
It would seek to involve students, researchers and academics with
amateur historians, 17th century re-enactors, publishers, artists,
battlefield preservation societies, trade unionists, and campaigners
who want to deepen our knowledge of the English Revolution. The
project is at an
early stage but current sponsors include:
Tony Benn,
Jeremy Corbyn MP,
Geoffrey Robertson QC, author of The Tyrannicide Brief
Jim Holstun, author of Ehud’s Dagger
Ann Hughes, Professor of Early Modern History at Keele University
Neil Faulkner, editor of Military Times
Andrew Murray, Director of Communications for Unite the Union
Dr John Gurney, Visiting Fellow Newcastle University
Caryl Churchill, playwright.
Rev. Hammer, songwriter
Dr Rachel Foxley, University of Reading
Philip Baker, Senior Research Officer at the Centre for Metropolitan
History
Dr Ariel Hessayon, Goldsmiths, University of London
This letter is being circulated on history, academic, trade union and
activists lists in the hope of widening he sponsorship base of the
project. Please do let us know if you would like to become a sponsor
of the Levellers Association.
We are aiming to hold an initial organising meeting on Saturday 22nd
May, at 1pm in Room B104, the School of Oriental and African Studies
Thornhaugh Street, London WC1H 0XG (nearest tube Russell Square). If
you would like to attend or if you have any ideas that you would like
discussed at the meeting please do let us know.
Please respond to this email address: info@theleveller.org.uk
We hope that people can help us establish a website, newsletter,
conferences, education packs, publications, artistic events and so
on…but there is absolutely no obligation on individual sponsors to
do any of this.
Thanks for taking the time to look at this.
Best wishes,
John Rees, Goldsmiths College
Ben Craggs, Goldsmiths College
Tehmeena Bax, Queen Mary College
