Clare Jackson

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In Our Time · The Levellers · 18 Jun 2026 podcast

It's about 2000 in 1641 and it's over 4000 in 1642.

Now, that's not a quantitative exponential increase in the sheer amount of print.

It's much more a shift towards cheap print, that there's many, many more titles.

They're shorter, they're sort of brief interjections.

They might even just be single sheets, sort of broad sheets.

I mean, as historians, we're phenomenally lucky because we have some sense of the scale of this.

Thanks to one man, a London bookseller, George Thomason, who wanted to preserve the sheer output of the press.

So bought as much as he possibly could and very conscientiously wrote the date of publication.

Over 22,000 of these tracts are in the British Library, and that's enabled historians to sort of sequence these debates.

But print is straying into areas that were previously sacrosanct.

MP speeches are suddenly being printed.

And the levelers are at the heart of this.

I mean, a lot of them have got experience working in underground presses.

So much of what they're about is very textual.

The source that Lilburn quotes most often, apart from the Bible, is Parliament's own Book of Declarations that it issued in March 1643.

And he wants constantly by the late 1640s to be showing how Parliament has betrayed the sort of things that went to war.

It's also a very visual way of using print.

There are two engravings of Lilburn that you can purchase at this time.

One is a standard sort of likeness and the other is a standard likeness.

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