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New Additions to the Leveller Anthologies at the David M. Hart Archives

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David Hart, former head of the Liberty Fund’s Online Library of Liberty Project, continues to build new archives of important documents from the history of liberalism. This includes new additions to the Leveller archives. the Levellers, according to Rothbard, were “the world’s first self-consciously libertarian movement.” Indeed, one frequently sees the influence of the Levellers in the American Revolution and documents like the Bill of Rights.  

Hart writes:

My growing collection of Leveller Tracts spurred me to finish working on my Lilburne anthology. ... It has 51 titles and 1,688 pages of text. The full collection has 331 tracts listed of which 185 are online http://http://davidmhart.com/liberty/Levellers/Titles-SortableTable.html. 

  1. An Anthology of Works by John Lilburne (1638-1656) (2025) with 51 items and 1,488 pages. [Online in one file] http://davidmhart.com/liberty/Levellers/Lilburne/Anthology/index.html and a [Table of Contents] with links to the individual items http://davidmhart.com/liberty/Levellers/Lilburne/Anthology/ToC.html.
  2. An Anthology of Works by Richard Overton (1641-1649) (2024) with 22 items and 466 pages. [Online in one file] http://davidmhart.com/liberty/Levellers/Overton/Anthology/index.html and a [Table of Contents] with links to the individual items http://davidmhart.com/liberty/Levellers/Overton/Anthology/ToC.html.
  3. An Anthology of Works by William Walwyn (1600-1681) (forthcoming) with 31 items. [Online in one file] http://davidmhart.com/liberty/Levellers/Walwyn/Anthology/index.html (forthcoming) and a [Table of Contents] with links to the individual items http://davidmhart.com/liberty/Levellers/Walwyn/Anthology/index.html.
  4. Demanding Liberty: An Anthology of Leveller Agreements of the People, Petitions, Remonstrances, and Declarations (1646-1659) (2025) with 30 items and 330 pages. [Online in one file] http://davidmhart.com/liberty/Levellers/Anthologies/Agreements/index.html.
  5. An Anthology of Protests of “The Little People” (1641-1652) with 17 items and 182 pages. [Online in one file] http://davidmhart.com/liberty/Levellers/Anthologies/ProtestsLittlePeople/index.html.
  6. The Art of the Levellers (2020) which is a collection and discussion of some of the title pages of the Leveller Tracts (over 40 examples). [Online] http://davidmhart.com/liberty/Levellers/Anthologies/Art-Levellers/index.html
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