David Horspool

Power to the people | 5 January 2017

The brave, ill-fated Levellers — who campaigned for universal suffrage and the abolition of the Lords — have always been heroes of the radical left

  • The Leveller Revolution

    John Rees

    Verso, pp. 400

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