The Fearless Benjamin Lay

the University of Essex history research seminar

Join Marcus Rediker to launch his new book The Fearless Benjamin Lay: The Quaker Dwarf Who Became the First Revolutionary Abolitionist 

Marcus Rediker at Birkbeck Institute for the Humanities

Sheila Rowbotham explores the influence of William Morris on the thinking and politics of the six radical pioneers featured in her latest book, ‘Rebel Crossings: New Women, Free Lovers and Radicals in Britain and the United States.’

Mike Dibb, William Fowler, Matthew Harle, Esther Leslie, Matthew Morgan, and Tom Overton

"If you didn’t know whether to risk doing something, what’s the worst that could happen? ‘So they call you pisher!’”

In an age of increasing individualism, we have never been more alone and miserable. But what if the true nature of happiness can only be found in others?

A New Politics in the Age of Crisis

Join George Monbiot on a 'politics of belonging' built from the bottom up