Who were the Diggers, Levellers and Ranters? | English Civil War

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  • @TheJayman213
    @TheJayman213 3 ปีที่แล้ว +48

    You noble diggers all, stand up now.

    • @wildandbarefoot
      @wildandbarefoot 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      See you at the Wigan Diggers Festival

    • @ruth4376
      @ruth4376 ปีที่แล้ว

      STAND UP NOW!! All you noble diggers, stand up now!

  • @JustMelsie
    @JustMelsie 5 ปีที่แล้ว +34

    Thanks for this. Wish it was an hour long! I'd love to find out more about these groups.

  • @riotdrone
    @riotdrone 5 ปีที่แล้ว +80

    the diggers are so cool, they called themselves the 'true levellers' and can be considered the ancestors of modern anarchism

    • @puremercury
      @puremercury 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      The Levellers were the true Levellers, and they were cooler.

    • @dimitrisblane6368
      @dimitrisblane6368 3 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      Reading about it's almost certain they didn't call themselves the 'true levellers' and they were trying to distance themselves from the Levellers. For Winstanley the 'true leveller' was christ. There was confusion, at the time, over the Diggers' name.
      Even the title of the first Digger manifesto called 'True Levellers Standard' was dropped and was replaced with a different one.
      I recommend 'The Digger's Life and Legacy' by John Gurney. It's a very informative book and not that big.

    • @ishineandburn
      @ishineandburn 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      Ancestors of communists

    • @oakashthorn5714
      @oakashthorn5714 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      ‘Modern anarchism’ you mean the blue haired mask wearing neo liberals who are pushing a globalist agenda pretending to be pushing back at the system ‘They are the system’…

    • @riotdrone
      @riotdrone 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@oakashthorn5714 lol anarchists are at the forefront of opposing neoliberalism and global capital. of course you're whining about 'blue hair' and 'globalists' so you might as well be from mars as far as your understanding of labor/radical movements goes

  • @mazzledazzle3946
    @mazzledazzle3946 5 ปีที่แล้ว +26

    super helpful, thanks very very much

  • @juvidotti7144
    @juvidotti7144 3 ปีที่แล้ว +12

    Fico feliz que teve a legenda em português, me ajudou muito na aula de História!

  • @ericb.4313
    @ericb.4313 4 ปีที่แล้ว +12

    Ain't no party like a ranter party 'cause a ranter party don't stop.

    • @veggie42
      @veggie42 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Like the Labour Party Digger Lisa N from Wigan and Surrey Heath levellers of Gove

  • @rosserjake
    @rosserjake ปีที่แล้ว +6

    Rest in peace Justin Champion. Currently, I'm a trainee history teacher. Year 8 are currently doing this topic- though very surface level.

  • @transvestosaurus878
    @transvestosaurus878 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    Sounds like they had some pretty good ideas

  • @charlesbourgoigne2130
    @charlesbourgoigne2130 3 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    I would also defend my cow in court.

  • @kickedinthecalfbyacow7549
    @kickedinthecalfbyacow7549 2 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    Ranters were too busy having a good time to produce pamphlets

  • @End-Result
    @End-Result 4 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    Why don’t you upload the entire segment by the late Dr Champion? I could listen to him talk all day every day.

  • @northeastwisconsinsocialis2466
    @northeastwisconsinsocialis2466 5 ปีที่แล้ว +32

    thanks for this, it's helped for explaining a lot of the foundation of modern egalitarian ideology.

  • @Jodonho
    @Jodonho 5 ปีที่แล้ว +35

    The Ranters are my favorite religious group.

    • @Based_Stuhlinger
      @Based_Stuhlinger 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Yes, I already knew the levelers and diggers but the ranters are pretty interesting.

    • @chadgrundle
      @chadgrundle 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      Same here, the Diggers are a close second for me

    • @OMGwtfSTFUbrb
      @OMGwtfSTFUbrb 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      you should look up adamites

    • @Rolez.z
      @Rolez.z 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      You are a ranger mate

  • @rogerhudson9732
    @rogerhudson9732 11 วันที่ผ่านมา

    To think that St George's Hill is now the most exclusive housing estate in England!!!

  • @Alphonium
    @Alphonium 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    The Levellers were the forerunners of the Whig party and later Liberal party. Truly the Libertarian founders of Republican Liberty!

    • @veggie42
      @veggie42 ปีที่แล้ว

      Surrey heath and wigan

  • @hawthornetree646
    @hawthornetree646 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    There was hierarchy and priests in the early church, there was a church. See Acts of the Apostles.

  • @kentishkid555
    @kentishkid555 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Iv just found out I'm a leveller thank you

  • @veggie42
    @veggie42 ปีที่แล้ว

    basically Johnson's levellers in Surrey Heath of Gove and diggers of Nandy's Wigan!

  • @luizguilhermemoreirasales1548
    @luizguilhermemoreirasales1548 5 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Hello i am Brasil thank you Citizens N_N

  • @sarahfarias6266
    @sarahfarias6266 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    Thank you very much!

  • @giovannimannelli2158
    @giovannimannelli2158 5 ปีที่แล้ว

    Very very interesting, from Italy.

  • @davidantonsavage6207
    @davidantonsavage6207 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    There's a music group called The Levellers.

    • @veggie42
      @veggie42 ปีที่แล้ว

      and Boris Johnson's Levelling Up

  • @Colincardsfan
    @Colincardsfan 4 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    This is fascinating. Does anyone have any recommendations for similar groups I could research from earlier periods, specifically the 12-14th centuries? I'm more interested in the egalitarian ideas than the religious ones, but anything similar is fine. Thanks!

    • @Oprey22
      @Oprey22 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Look up the Lollards and the hedge priests, Wycliffe, the peasants revolt.

    • @Colincardsfan
      @Colincardsfan 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@Oprey22 Awesome, I'll do that, thanks.

    • @clawsoon
      @clawsoon 3 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      You might be interested in the classic book "The Pursuit of the Millennium: Revolutionary Millenarians and Mystical Anarchists of the Middle Ages".

    • @Colincardsfan
      @Colincardsfan 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@clawsoon Woah! I totally think I would be. You rock!

    • @papajack222
      @papajack222 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      @@Colincardsfan The Hussite mouvement in Bohemia (the czech republic) Will be interesting to you also.

  • @Taffy064
    @Taffy064 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

    2:28 Yeah, yeah, all very interesting, but what was the outcome of the trial! (seriously though, thank you for this upload, it's a subject that interests me intensely)

  • @Spiderhead1000
    @Spiderhead1000 5 ปีที่แล้ว

    Excellent.

  • @hannahprew8799
    @hannahprew8799 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Please do a video on the Cuban missile crisis and the rise of fascism ! :)

  • @o80y1
    @o80y1 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Based

  • @connieharrison1241
    @connieharrison1241 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    this was in my schools google doc :( the questions dont even go with the video :/ im so confused]

  • @Anti-CornLawLeague
    @Anti-CornLawLeague 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    The original Land Value Tax advocates.

    • @veggie42
      @veggie42 ปีที่แล้ว

      Good old George

  • @ruth4376
    @ruth4376 ปีที่แล้ว

    And he mentions the world turned upside down

  • @KevTheImpaler
    @KevTheImpaler 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    I read about the Ranters before, pretty horrible lot imo. iirc they believed it was fine to exploit other people because they were divine.

  • @tomg6589
    @tomg6589 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Disgracefully poor representation of diggers.
    However am not surprised considering that of course the middle/upper class are always going to put down those who challenged the establishment.

  • @tigerstyle4505
    @tigerstyle4505 5 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Turns out my overly religious forbearers of thought where absolutely right lol

    • @hawthornetree646
      @hawthornetree646 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Tiger Style: Absolutely? Sounds like with these groups you just kind of do your own thing, nothing objectively true.

  • @jesusislukeskywalker4294
    @jesusislukeskywalker4294 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    video keeps stalling. must be good then. lol. of course it is.

  • @raggedyshoes9703
    @raggedyshoes9703 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    i call cap no way his name is 'Champion'

  • @lilliedoubleyou3865
    @lilliedoubleyou3865 5 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Not surprising that out of the 3 groups in this short video the Levellers (proto-libertarians that they are) get the least amount of attention. Of course the group that doesn't respect private property and the group that wants to disrupt civil society are more popular than the Levellers.

    • @tomasroma2333
      @tomasroma2333 4 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      The Diggers were in no way Libertarian unless you mean Libertarian Socialist. They were closer to Anarchism (the left wing kind).

    • @puremercury
      @puremercury 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@tomasroma2333 Did you not read that Amelia was writing about the Levellers, not the Diggers?

    • @puremercury
      @puremercury 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      The Levellers probably would be closest to the geolibertarians and Georgists of today.

    • @dubfox1691
      @dubfox1691 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Anarchists care about your liberty as much as their own, Libertarians just want to be left alone to fuck their children, and they like to think they'll shoot anyone who tries to stop them.
      The Diggers and the The Levellers were proto-Anarchists, albeit religiously motivated.

  • @flippydaflip5310
    @flippydaflip5310 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

    The Levellers sound based - I don't have much patience for pacifists.