Clare Jackson

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In Our Time · The Levellers · 18 Jun 2026 podcast

And he identified lots of regions in which he would say, we're not doing so well.

Massive inequality of wealth, persistence of poverty, all sorts of ways in which

I can see why many subsequent generations have gone back to their writings and found real cause for inspiration, as well as just remembering what the impact of that kind of upheaval of civil war must have been.

So, no, I'm not offended at all.

And I think Lilburn's celebrity at the time, we perhaps tend to look too much to the political theory and expect too much.

Among contemporaries, Lilburn is famous for having been put on trial twice for treason and having been acquitted.

And that is no mean feat in the 17th century.

This is the most serious crime against the state.

And two juries in 1649 and 1653 acquit him.

And there are celebrations and bonfires and all sorts of things.

So I think among contemporaries, that's where they see his achievement because it doesn't end well, this movement.

The regicide doesn't solve everything.

A new utopia isn't created.

And very quickly, Lilburn's on the case.

England's New Change Discovered is published in February.

1649 and then part two in March.

And he is put into trial for treason.

And his trial in October becomes this big set piece trial.

There are scaffolds erected for people to watch.

He makes this very strong claim that anyone who's put on trial for their life should at least be afforded defence counsel.

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