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Winstanley and being
The first full-length feature produced under the BFI's new scheme was Kevin Brownlow and Andrew Mollo's Winstanley ( 1975 ), while others included Moon Over the Alley ( 1975 ), Requiem for a Village ( 1975 ), the openly avant-garde Central Bazaar ( 1973 ), Pressure ( 1975 ) and A Private Enterprise ( 1974 ) -- the last two being, respectively, the first British Black and Asian features.
Following a court case, in which the Diggers were forbidden to speak in their own defence, they were found guilty of being Ranters, a radical sect associated with liberal sexuality ( though in fact Winstanley had reprimanded Ranter Laurence Clarkson for his sexual practices ).
Whereas Coke, John Pym, Lucy Hutchinson and Sir Henry Vane saw Magna Carta rights as being primarily those of the propertied classes, during the prolonged 17th-century constitutional crisis in England and Scotland, the arguments were also taken up in a more radical way by the likes of Francis Trigge, John Hare, John Lilburne, John Warr and Gerrard Winstanley of the radical Diggers even calling for an end to primogeniture and for the cultivation of the soil in common.
Banners hung in the square reading " Resistance is Fertile " ( a pun on futile ), " Let London Sprout ", " Capitalism is Pants ", and " The Earth is a Common Treasury for All ", the latter being a quote from the seventeenth-century Digger Gerrard Winstanley.

Winstanley and most
The communities failed, but a series of pamphlets by Winstanley survived, of which The New Law of Righteousness ( 1649 ) was the most important.
The concepts held by Muenzer and Winstanley were superbly attuned to the needs of their time — a historical period when the majority of the population lived in the countryside and when the most militant revolutionary forces came from an agrarian world.
Of Granville Sharp's most successful critic, Calvin Winstanley, Wallace says:
Two of the most notable DJs from the original northern soul era are Russ Winstanley and Ian Levine.
Bertrand Russell, in his History of Western Philosophy, writes that the Anabaptists " repudiated all law, since they held that the good man will be guided at every moment by the Holy Spirit ... rom this premiss they arrive at communism ...." Prior to Leo Tolstoy, Christian anarchism found one of its most articulate exponents in Gerrard Winstanley, who was part of the Diggers movement in England during the English Civil War.
The society started publishing its monthly magazine Wondrous Stories at its inception, which then became Rock Society and is now bi-monthly featuring reviews, interviews with prominent classic rock musicians and up and coming bands. The magazine was one of the first in the UK to promote progressive and classic rock and precedes the Classic Rock magazine by several years, amongst the key contributors are Martin Hudson, Terry Craven, Miles Bartaby, Stephen Lambe, Steve Pilkington, David Pearson, Richard Barnes, James R Turner ( whose Notes from the Edge was one of the magazine's most popular columns before it was axed ) David Winstanley, Richard Watts, Lee Vickers and Bernard Law.

Winstanley and them
Even Gerrard Winstanley, the leader of another English dissenting group called the Diggers, commented on Ranter principles by denoting them as " a general lack of moral values or restraint in worldly pleasures.
Winstanley was one of the founders of the English group known as the True Levellers for their beliefs, based upon Christian communism, and as the Diggers for their actions because they took over public lands and dug them over to plant crops.
In 2007, after hearing them singing through the wall of a rehearsal studio, Alan Gregg joined Cy Winstanley and Ange Boxall in The Desert Downtown, which also includes drummer Steve Brookes.

Winstanley and all
Gerrard Winstanley ( 1648 ), Richard Coppin ( 1652 ), Jane Leade ( 1697 ), and then George de Benneville in America, taught that God would grant all human beings salvation.
* A DECLARATION FROM THE Poor oppressed People OF ENGLAND, DIRECTED To all that call themselves, or are called Lords of Manors, through this NATION ... Gerrard Winstanley, John Coulton, John Palmer, Thomas Star, Samuel Webb, John Hayman, Thomas Edcer, William Hogrill, Daniel Weeden, Richard Wheeler, Nathaniel Yates, William Clifford, John Harrison, Thomas Hayden, James Hall.
* An appeale to all Englishmen, to judge between bondage and freedome, sent from those that began to digge upon George Hill in Surrey ; but now are carrying on, that publick work upon the little heath in the parish of Cobham ..., ( March 26, 1650 ), Jerard Winstanley 24 others
* An Humble Request, to the Ministers of both Universities, and to all Lawyers in every Inns-a-court ( April 9, 1650 ), Gerrard Winstanley
Winstanley took as his basic texts the Biblical sacred history, with its affirmation that all men were descended from a common stock, and with its scepticism about the rulership of kings, voiced in the Books of Samuel ; and the New Testament's affirmations that God was no respecter of persons, that there were no masters or slaves, Jews or Gentiles, male or female, under the New Covenant.
:" Winstanley conceded ' There are, you say, no exceptions, in the New Testament, to your rule ; that is, I suppose, unless these particular texts the ones Sharp used to adduce Christ's deity be such ... it is nothing surprising to find all these particular texts in question appearing as the exceptions to your rule, and the sole exceptions ... in the New Testament ' - an obvious concession that he could find no exceptions save for the ones he supposed exist in the christologically pregnant texts.
Winstanley was Trinitarian, but cautioned that a rule that held true only in the New Testament in all but the disputed cases was too flimsy a ground on which to try to prove the divinity of Christ to the Socinians ( Unitarians ).

Winstanley and is
William Winstanley, who praised much of Richard Lovelace's works, thought highly of him and compared him to an idol ; " I can compare no Man so like this Colonel Lovelace as Sir Philip Sidney ,” of which it is in an Epitaph made of him ;
Although in modern times it is known mostly for its wealth, Battersea remains characterised by spates of inequality, with infamous and deprived council estates such as the Winstanley estate surrounding more prosperous areas.
Winstanley is situated behind Clapham Junction railway station in the northern perimeter of Battersea.
During construction, a French privateer took Winstanley prisoner, causing Louis XIV to order his release with the words " France is at war with England, not with humanity ".
Winstanley declared that " true freedom lies where a man receives his nourishment and preservation, and that is in the use of the earth ".
* A New-yeers Gift FOR THE PARLIAMENT AND ARMIE: SHEWING, What the KINGLY Power is ; And that the CAUSE of those They call DIGGERS ( January 1, 1650 ), Gerrard Winstanley
* A Vindication of Those Whose Endeavors is Only to Make the Earth a Common Treasury, Called Diggers ( March 4, 1650 ), Gerrard Winstanley
Gerrard Winstanley's early life is broadly unknown, however it is known that he was baptised in 1609 in the parish of Wigan, then part of the West Derby hundred of Lancashire, and that he was the son of an Edward Winstanley, mercer.
Whereas Lilburne sought to level the laws and maintain the right to the ownership of real property, Winstanley sought to level the ownership of real property itself, which is why Winstanley's followers called themselves " True Levellers ".
Winstanley ( two versions ; the second however just replaced the top of the structure ), Rudyard, Smeaton and finally the Douglass Lighthouse which is the present one.
Gerrard Winstanley, who published a pamphlet calling for communal ownership and social and economic organization in small agrarian communities in the 17th century, is considered another of the forerunners of modern anarchism.
Winstanley College is a sixth form college in the Billinge Higher End area of the Metropolitan Borough of Wigan, Greater Manchester.
Winstanley College is highly oversubscribed due to its outstanding Ofsted Reports and A Level performance.
Winstanley College Students ' Union is an independent union and a member of the National Union of Students.
A portal to higher education, Winstanley College is at the forefront of the top 10 colleges in the UK in terms of A-level PPS ( points per student ) — ranked 1st in the Guardian's country-wide collation of A-Level results in 2010.
There is Miss Winstanley, young, colourless, and secretly in love with one of the few male teachers at the academy, economics tutor Sebastian Birt.
The cover art for this album is based on the lyrics from " That Girl Possessed ", and was illustrated by Justin Winstanley, a tattoo artist who has done many of Dallas Green's tattoos.
There was one in Bagnigge Vale, London, the summer home of Nell Gwynn ( 1650 – 87 ), and Henry Winstanley ( 1644 – 1703 ), the designer of the Eddystone Lighthouse, is thought to have built one at his home in Saffron Walden, Essex.
Produced by Martin Rushent and engineered by Alan Winstanley, the album is divided into the Black side and White side.
The first verifiable and undisputed believer in universal salvation is Gerrard Winstanley, author of The Mysterie of God Concerning the Whole Creation, Mankinde ( London, 1648 ).

Winstanley and known
At the same time that John Lilburne began his campaign, another group led by Gerrard Winstanley styling themselves True Levellers ( and became known as Diggers ), advocated equality in property as well as political rights.
The Diggers were a group of Protestant English agrarian communists, begun by Gerrard Winstanley as True Levellers in 1649, who became known as Diggers due to their activities.
The Diggers were an English group of Protestant agrarian communists, begun by Gerrard Winstanley as True Levellers in 1649, who became known as Diggers due to their activities.

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