The British Democrats (or the British Jacobins) were reformers and revolutionaries of the late eighteenth century who were inspired by the American and French revolutions.
Selected Texts
Gerrard Winstanley et al., The True Levellers Standard Advanced, 1649
In 1649 Gerrard Winstanley and fourteen others published The True Levellers Standard Advanced, a pamphlet in which they called themselves the “True Levellers” to distinguish their ideas from those of the Levellers. The Diggers, as they came to be known, occupied public lands that had been privatised by enclosures and dug them over, pulling down hedges and filling in ditches, to plant crops.
Full List by Author
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- Anon., Light shining in Buckinghamshire, 5 December 1648
- Anon., A Letter taken at Wellingborough, March 1650
- Anon., A Vindication of those … called Diggers, 4 March 1650
- Anon., Englands Spirit Unfoulded, 1650
- Anon., A Letter to the Lord Fairfax and his Councell of War, 9 June 1649
- Anon., A Declaration from the Poor Oppressed People of England, 1 June 1649
- Anon., An Appeal To the House of Commons, 11 July 1649
- Anon., To His Excellency the Lord Fairfax and the Counsell of Warre , December 1649
- Anon., The Breaking of the Day of God , 20 May 1648
- Anon., The Saints Paradise, 1648
- Various., A Declaration of the Grounds and Reasons why we the Poor Inhabitants of the Town of Wellingborrow…, 1650
- William Everard, The Declaration and Standard Of the Levellers of England, 1649
- Gerrard Winstanley, An Appeale to all Englishmen, 26 March 1650
- Gerrard Winstanley [attributed], To My Lord Generall and his Councell of Warr, 8 December 1649
- Gerrard Winstanley [attributed], The Diggers Song, 1649/50
- Gerrard Winstanley, An Humble Request, to the Ministers of both Universities, 1650
- Gerrard Winstanley, A Watch-word to the City of London, 10 September 1649
- Gerrard Winstanley, A Declaration of The bloudie and unchristian acting of William Star and John Taylor of Walton, 22 June 1649
- Gerrard Winstanley, A New-yeers Gift for the Parliament and Armie, 1 January 1650
- Gerrard Winstanley, The Law of Freedom in a Platform, or True Magistracy Restored, 1652
- Gerrard Winstanley, The New Law of Righteousness, 26 January 1649
- Gerrard Winstanley, Fire in the Bush, 19 March 1650
- Gerrard Winstanley, The Mysterie of God concerning the whole Creation, Mankind, 1648
- Gerrard Winstanley, Truth Lifting up its Head above Scandals, 1649