New podcast on William Grindecobbe, John Wrawe, and John Ball and their millenarian (or otherwise) activities in the 1381 uprising censamm.org/blog/wrawe-g...

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A.L. Morton and the Radical Tradition

Thursday, 26 June 2025 - 7:00pm
Marx Memorial Library, 37a Clerkenwell Green, London

In person and online

www.marx-memorial-library.org.uk/event/504

A L Morton: Life in the Radical Tradition YouTube video by Steve Cushion

Full talk to SHS now available on A. L. Morton's life and work
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Remembering A. L. Morton, Historian of English Radicalism Ahead of a talk to the Socialist History Society tomorrow, James Crossley looks at the life of a trailblazing historian. A. L. Morton (1903–1987) is best remembered for A People’s History of Englan…

Morton posting will end in 2026 labourhub.org.uk/2025/04/02/r...

Reminder

A screengrab of a slide titled "Jesus in Durham County Prison" and James speaking.

Today's Ehrhardt Seminar is underway, with @jc01229.bsky.social speaking on 'Meeting Old Quests Again for the First Time: The Historical Jesus among British Dissenters, Radicals, and the Working Class (c. 1790-c.1850)'

Is everything we dont like "apocalyptic"?

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A. L. Morton: Life in the Radical Tradition

Thursday 3rd April 2025

Speaker: James Crossley

All welcome, but advance registration required.

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Recording available soon, unless I botch it, obviously

The enduring power of radical ideas PHIL KATZ applauds the biography of a man of principle that is a vibrant excavation of the radical tradition itself

A. L. Morton biography now in @mstaronline.bsky.social ow.ly/FMPo50Vczxo

Palgrave Studies in Utopianism Utopianism is an interdisciplinary concept which covers philosophy, sociology, literature, history of ideas, art and architecture, religion, futurology and ...

Are you famliar with the Palgrave Studies in Utopianism series? The latest publication in the series, A. L. Morton and the Radical Tradition, is from our Academic Director, Professor James Crossley. Check it and the rest of the series out here: link.springer.com/series/15242

A. L. Morton - CDAMM

"Where his contemporary Norman Cohn represented an influential ‘liberal’ scholarly reading of millenarianism as having a malign political influence, ...

A. L. Morton and the Radical Tradition This book covers the life of Communist activist, historian, and literary critic, A. L. Morton, who pioneered studies in utopianism and radical history.

A. L. Morton and the Radical Tradition out now! link.springer.com/book/10.1007...

The Apocalypticism and Millenarian Movements Seminar are starting back up later this month starting on 28 January, 4.30pm.

Seminars will take place in Room 7, Faculty of Divinity, University of Cambridge.

CenSAMM seminars for this term...

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It's John Milton's birthday! We are lucky to look after a copy of the original issue of his 'Lycidas' (part of a 1638 collection of poems marking the death of Edward King), with corrections & additions in Milton's own hand. Find out more on our Digital Library. cudl.lib.cam.ac.uk/view/PR-ADV-...

Next CenSAMM Seminar:

Justin Meggitt, “‘Babilons Bastards’ [sic] and the End of Hell: Benjamin Lay’s Antislavery Exegesis of Revelation” (Tuesday 26 November, 4.30–5.30pm)

Room 7, Faculty of Divinity, University of Cambridge

Thanks, and interested to discuss further. Timing of two biographies on Historians' Group members (not to mention work on your man Samuel) is unintentional but...significant? Not sure what that significance would be tho

Morton's close friend (Hill, that is) also has a biography coming out early 2025...

The answer to Rev. 1:13 is Mateczka www.equinoxpub.com/home/mariavi...

Outstanding Marxist historiographer ELAINE MCFARLAND and JIM WHISTON introduce a collection of essays published in honour of Professor John Foster

A review of the new book features in the Morning Star:

morningstaronline.co.uk/article/outs...

English Radical Tradition History and Reception of English Radical Politics and Religion

For all things John Ball and A. L. Morton (and much more English radical tradition to follow), see... johnball1381.org

Since I'm new here, can I re-up a project of which I am v proud? It's the complete Eric Hobsbawm Bibliography - a fully searchable database of all his published & unpublished works + a set of curated thematic lists to introduce select topics. It was a labour of love. Link: hobsbawm.shca.ed.ac.uk

John Foster fs
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Jezreel's Tower

Back to the Panacea Museum to talk towers and the apocalypse

Tomorrow at 12.30pm at Panacea Museum (Bedford, Uk) a talk on towers and/in apocalypticism. Book free tickets here: panaceamuseum.org/events
The current exhibition & and associated events are part of
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