The Putney Debates
18 Apr, 2013
320 Political science
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the Putney Debates. For several weeks in late 1647, after the defeat of King Charles I in the first hostilities of the Civil War, representatives of the New Model Army and the radical Levellers met in a church in Putney to debate the future of England. There was much to discuss: who should be allowed to vote, civil liberties and religious freedom. The debates were inconclusive, but the ideas aired in Putney had a considerable influence on centuries of political thought.
Guests
- Justin Champion
11 episodes
Professor of the History of Early Modern Ideas at Royal Holloway, University of London - Ann Hughes
2 episodes
Professor of Early Modern History at Keele University - Kate Peters
2 episodes
Fellow in History at Murray Edwards College, Cambridge
Reading list
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The Levellers: The Putney Debates
Philip Baker (ed.) (Verso, 2007) -
The Agreements of the People, the Levellers, and the Constitutional Crisis of the English Revolution
Philip Baker and Elliot Vernon (eds.) (Palgrave Macmillan, 2012) -
The Clarke Papers
Charles Firth (ed.) (Offices of the Royal Historical Society, 1992) Google Books → -
The Putney Debates of 1647: The Army, the Levellers and the English State
Michael Mendle (ed.) (Cambridge University Press, 2001) Google Books → -
The English Levellers
Andrew Sharp (ed.) (Cambridge University Press, 1998) Google Books → -
Puritanism and Liberty: Being the Army Debates 1647-9
A. S. P. Woodhouse (ed.) (Everyman Ltd, 1986) Google Books → -
Soldiers and Statesmen: the General Council of the Army and its Debates 1647-8
Austin Woolrych (Clarendon Press, 1987) Google Books →
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