Ted Vallance
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They're trying to appeal to rank and file in the army.
They're trying to appeal to their supporters in sectarian churches.
So it's a way of coalition building too for them.
Absolutely.
And if you look at kind of what political scientists have said about political kind of campaigning, a lot of them think that this doesn't really happen until we get to the 19th century.
But I think you can really see with the Levellers those sorts of political petitioning campaigns actually taking form in the mid 17th century.
Yeah, and this has been a big subject of debate amongst historians as well.
And I think there are some historians who take the view that when we're talking about the levellers, we are talking about a label that's been created mostly by their opponents to create this image of this sort of organised, radical, dangerous movement.
I mean, I gave you that example of the numbers signing up to the September 1648 petition.
That comes from a hostile royalist newsbook.
And the intention is to show you that there's this level of conspiracy that's about to kind of overturn monarchical government and the sort of established religion.
But my view is that we can talk about them as a meaningful organisation.
And I think that's for a number of reasons.
Firstly, once we get to the point of having the agreement of the people, as if you like, the level of sort of manifesto, I think there is a coherence to what they're arguing.
And that coherence stays with the movement until through to its sort of end.
end as a meaningful movement in spring of 1649.
And I think there is also an organisational structure behind them.
And that's something that we see coming through in terms of that petitioning organisation.
So some of the information, again, that we get about the petitioning organisation comes from hostile sources.
There's a report from a Shoreditch minister called George Masterson, who's basically operating as a spy, and he sneaks into one of these meetings in January of 1648 where they're about to kind of formulate a new petition and get it out.
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