Levellers "The Road"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bRGq4nWbBk8

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and now The Levellers - Warning recorded in about '94 by the looks of it. The year of their triumphant return to Glasto.

I probably saw them three or four times this year and a little more in each of the two years before this.

Best in a field with woodsmoke drifting past or a smaller club but they still rock the size of venue in this video in their middle ages to a much stiffer and achier audience :)

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vw8h2a19T1Y&list=RDGEPj1F4aKPo

Mr Mountbatten-Windsor would do well to learn about the last member of the English "royal" family to be arrested.

The "royal" in question was Charles the first. Contrary to popular belief he was not hiding up every oak tree in England but was living quite comfortably outside of Oxford while the civil war was raging.

Eventually the Parliamentary forces had enough. A squad of cavalry from the New Model Army under the command of a corporal were sent to arrest the "king".

When the troopers arrived on the "kings" front lawn he walked out to see what was going on. He demanded to know what authority the troopers had to arrest him. In other words what officer had given the troopers their orders.

The corporal drew his sword and stuck it under the "kings" nose and said something along the lines of "this is all the authority I need". The king went quietly after that.

Of course Charles was beheaded after a trial before Parliament.

Cromwell was a total bastard and worse than the "king". The Commonwealth was terrible in many ways. However for a few short years the English were not forced to bow down to the "divine right of kings" at the point of a sword.

If the counter revolution of the Levellers had not been brutally put down by Cromwell and the Parliamentary grandees England would almost certainly have been a better place. England would have been genuinely democratic and socialist centuries ago. There would have been no going back either.

No "lords", No masters, level the land.

That was a great revolutionary slogan in the 1640s and its just as good now.

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Ja, war echt ein klasse Abend. Hat viel Spass gemacht, viele nette Leute wiedergesehen.

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So Feierabend, paar Stündchen noch ausruhen, dann Themenabend englischer Bürgerkrieg unter Oliver Cromwell. Und ganz nebenbei noch 25 Jahre Weihnachtskonzert in Kölle.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tyxQYCoQ2Ig

Levellers, True Levellers, and the Diggers of 1649

https://kolektiva.media/w/wbtMcykKvzV3xdDxmPVL7H

The Levellers, 1649.

(Tea towel design, source unknown)

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