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The Levellers and the Diggers Index
www.bilderberg.org/land/index.htm
Conspiracy theory website that, nevertheless, contains reprints of many of the pamphlets written by Diggers, Levellers and others in the mid-17th century.

Radical Women during the English Revolution
www.fordham.edu/halsall/
mod/17women.html
Women's petition written by Mary Cary in 1649 at the climax of the English Civil War.

Mary Astell (1666-1731)
www.orst.edu/instruct/phl302/
philosophers/astell.html
Webpage with timeline introducing Mary Astell, the first self-avowed feminist writer in English.

Books

The World Turned Upside Down: Radical ideas during the English Revolution by Christopher Hill (Penguin, 1991)
Classic account of the Levellers, Diggers and weird and wonderful radical and millenarian sects that came to the fore during the English Civil Wars.
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1649: The crisis of the English Revolution by Brian Manning (Bookmarks, 1995). Out of print; may be available from libraries or second-hand booksellers.
Examines the role of the Levellers, radical soldiers, women and youth at the climax of the English Civil Wars.

Women All on Fire: The women of the English Civil War by Alison Plowden (Sutton, 2000)
The story of the women of the English Civil Wars, from the queen Henrietta Maria to the oyster wenches who defended London for Parliament.
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Astell: Political writings by Mary Astell, edited by Patricia Springborg (Cambridge University Press, 1996)
The writings of the High Church Tory pamphleteer Mary Astell, the first self-avowed feminist writer in English.
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