2. 1970s
Oil crisis 1973
Labour disputes of the 1970s
Red Army Faction/Baader Meinhof, formed 1970,
most active 1977
Red Brigade, formed 1970, most extreme in 1978
Black Panthers, 1966-76
Feminism & Communism & Psychoanalysis
Iranian Revolution, 1979
Election of Thatcher/Reagan
3. 1972 – Owners
1976 – Traps
1976 – Vinegar Tom
1976 – Light Shining in Buckinghamshire
1979 - Cloud Nine
1982 - Top Girls
1987 - Serious Money
4. English Civil War 1642-1651 - King Charles I vs rebel parliamentarians
New Model Army, parliamentarians, 1645
Puritans – 16th/17th c., true religion, literal Biblical interpretation, rejection of decorative &
ritualistic worship, Millenarian.
Putney Debates, 28 Oct - 11 Nov 1647, constitutional democracy, religious toleration, equality
before the law, two-year parliaments, constituencies by population, sovereignty of the people,
universal male suffrage, Republicanism)
Levellers (suffrage, rule of law, religious tolerance); Diggers (agrarian communists); Ranters
(pantheistic, anti-scripture, anarchist)
Execution of Charles I (1600 – 30 January 1649)
Commonwealth of England or English Interregnum 1649-1660
The Protectorate under Cromwell 1653-1659
Oliver Cromwell (1599-1658), Lord Protector 1653-1658
Richard Cromwell (1626-1712), 3rd son, Lord Protector 1658-1659
Restoration of monarchy, 29 May 1660 - Charles II (1630-1685)
5. Act I
Star Recruits, p.195, 199 - millenarian
Hoskins Interrupts, p.200 – Christian radicalism
Putney Debates, pp.212-3, 215-6
Oct. 28th 1647
Act II
Diggers – p.21920 – the commons, Enclosure
The Meeting, pp.229-233, 233, pp.236-40, (Briggs), Brotherton (vagratn), Hoskins
(dissenter), Claxon (Ranter), Cobbe (pious man), Briggs (former soldier) – structure
of radical politics
After – Briggs, ascetism, renunciation
Retrenchment, movement away from radicalism
