If you’re not familiar with David M. Hart’s online library of texts from classical liberals and libertarians, be sure to check it out here. In many cases, Hart’s site contains some of the only English translations (that I know of) of texts from radical French theorists.
Hart recently drew my attention to his online “Levellers Project” which features many texts from the seventeenth century movement that Rothbard called “the world’s first self-consciously libertarian movement”
Hart provides a basic breakdown:
The main list of titles (in a sortable table - 331 titles to date): http://davidmhart.com/liberty/Levellers/Titles-SortableTable.html
A summary of my “Leveller Project” http://davidmhart.com/liberty/Levellers/index.html
I have also edited a couple of anthologies of the more important Levellers:
[Several Hands], An Anthology of Leveller “Agreements” (1647-1649). Edited by David M. Hart (Pittwater Free Press, 2024). http://davidmhart.com/liberty/Levellers/Anthology-Agreements.html
Richard Overton, An Anthology of the Works of Richard Overton (1641-1649). Edited by David M. Hart (The Pittwater Free Press, 2024). http://davidmhart.com/liberty/Levellers/Overton/Anthology/index.html
I am working on an anthology of Lilbourne’s writings but haven’t finished it yet.
I am also working on an anthology of “Protests of ‘The Little People’” which will have pieces like this charming one:
Anon., The Lamentable Complaints of Nick Froth the Tapster, and Rulerost the Cooke. Concerning the restraint lately set forth against drinking, potting and piping on the Sabbath Day, and against selling meate. Printed in the yeare, 1641.
I have about 17 of them.
This past month I have been editing three pamphlets by John Warr who is largely unknown. He is a beautiful and passionate writer but very little is known about him or what happened to him after he wrote them. See:
John Warr, “The Sparks of Freedom in the Minds of Men”: Three Tracts by John Warr (1648-1649). Edited by David M. Hart (The Pittwater Free Press, 2025). http://davidmhart.com/liberty/LevellerTracts/T123.html
Last time I was in London I made a pilgrimage to the church in Putney where the “Putney Debates” took place in October. - Nov. 1647. Here is my edition of them:
William Clarke, The Clarke Papers. Selections from the Papers of William Clarke, Secretary to the Council of the Army, 1647-1649, and to General Monck and the Commanders of the Army in Scotland, 1651-1660, ed. C.H. Firth (Camden Society, 1891-1901). Volume 1 (1891). http://davidmhart.com/liberty/T111-PutneyDebates.html
