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...

Register! 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

Full talk to SHS now available on A. L. Morton's life and work youtu.be/9E5JoLDX9CQ?...

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

Reminder

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"?

Sign up: A. L. Morton: Life in the Radical Tradition Thursday 3rd April 2025 Speaker: James Crossley All welcome, but advance registration required. ucl.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

Recording available soon, unless I botch it, obviously

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

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

"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 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...

Here we go

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

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

A review of the new book features in the Morning Star: morningstaronline.co.uk/article/outs...

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 www.manifestopress.coop/product/pre-...

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 #BeingHuman2024