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SUMMARY:Underground printing during the English Civil War\, 1646-1666 - Dr
  David Adams
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CONTACT:Dr Hilary Powell
DESCRIPTION:The monarchical regimes of seventeenth-century Europe were far
  from embracing anything akin to liberty of speech or freedom of the press
 . Nevertheless\, in a period of crisis official censorship could come unde
 r considerable strain or collapse completely. During the English Civil War
  (1642-46) radical political and religious ideas issued prolifically from 
 London presses. In particular\, the Leveller movement proposed revolutiona
 ry political reforms which would have introduced universal religious liber
 ty and a republican form of government akin to modern democracy. In order 
 properly to understand these striking and unusual writings it is crucial f
 or historians to undertake a systematic analysis of the legal and undergro
 und printing houses from which they sprang.
LOCATION:Entertaining Room\, Darwin College
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