‘This book will outlive our time and will stand as a notable monument to the man, the committed radical scholar, and one of the finest historians of the present age’ Together these groups represented a significant challenge to the dominant ideology and the institutions upholding it.Īs acclaimed historian Bernard Capp writes in his introduction, Hill encourages the reader to be ‘moved by their passionate idealism, their courage in challenging almost every traditional assumption’. Hill examines the beliefs and methods of various revolutionary groups, from the Ranters, who rejected obedience and believed that God was within everyone, to the Diggers, who called for a communal ownership of land, establishing a settlement called George Hill in Surrey.
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