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This portal lists works related to the Protestant agrarian communist group called "Diggers," which rose to prominence as radical socialists in the mid-17th-century. They were formally titled "True Levellers".

Works by the Digger movement

  • The Mysterie of God concerning the whole Creation, Mankind Gerrard Winstanley (1648)
  • The Breaking of the Day of God (May 20, 1648)
  • The Saints Paradise (Ca. 1648)
  • Truth Lifting up its Head above Scandals (1648)
  • The New Law Of Righteousness (January 26, 1649)
  • The True Levellers Standard Advanced (April 20, 1649)
  • A Declaration from the Poor Oppressed People of England (June 1, 1649).
  • A Letter to the Lord Fairfax and his Councell of War (June 9, 1649)
  • A Declaration of The bloudie and unchristian acting of William Star and John Taylor of Walton (June 22, 1649)
  • An Appeal To the House of Commons (July 11, 1649)
  • A Watch-Word to the City of London, and the Armie (August 26, 1649)
  • To His Excellency the Lord Fairfax and the Counsell of Warre (December 1649)
  • To My Lord Generall and his Councell of Warr (December 8, 1649)
  • The Declaration and Standard Of the Levellers of England, William Everard
  • A New-yeers Gift FOR THE PARLIAMENT AND ARMIE: SHEWING, What the KINGLY Power is; And that the CAUSE of those They call DIGGERS Gerrard Winstanley (January 1, 1650)
  • Englands Spirit Unfoulded (1650)
  • A Vindication of those ... called Diggers (March 4, 1650)
  • Fire in the Bush (March 19, 1650)
  • An Appeale to all Englishmen (March 26, 1650)
  • A Letter taken at Wellingborough (March, 1650)
  • An Humble Request, to the Ministers of both Universities, and to all Lawyers in every Inns-a-court (April 9, 1650)
  • Letter to Lady Eleanor Davies (December 4, 1650)
  • The Law Of Freedom in a Platform, or True Magistracy Restored (1652)

Works about the Digger movement

  • The Digger Movement in the Days of the Commonwealth, 1906 by Lewis Henry Berens[1]

See also

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