Levellers

…Before we get into the ideas and the nature of the movement, tell us about the name levellers.…

…With me to discuss the Levellers are Theresa Bejan, Professor of Political Theory and Fellow of Oriel College, University of Oxford, Ted Vallance, Professor of History at the University of Roehampton, and Clare Jackson, Honorary Professor of Early Modern History at the University of Cambridge and Fellow of Trinity Hall.…

…They became known as the Levellers, a group who pushed for a new constitution, an extended franchise, popular sovereignty and religious toleration.…