The world turned upside down - Christopher Hill

'His finest work and one that was both symptom and engine of the concept
of "history from below" ... Here Levellers, Diggers, Ranters,
Muggletonians, the early Quakers and others taking advantage of the
collapse of censorship to bid for new kinds of freedom were given centre
stage' Times Higher Education

In 'The World Turned Upside Down' Christopher Hill studies the beliefs
of such radical groups as the Diggers, the Ranters, the Levellers and
others, and the social and emotional impulses that gave rise to them.
The relations between rich and poor classes, the part played by
wandering 'masterless' men, the outbursts of sexual freedom, the great
imaginative creations of Milton and Bunyan - these and many other
elements build up into a marvellously detailed and coherent portrait of
this strange, sudden effusion of revolutionary beliefs.

'Established
the concept of an "English Revolution" every bit as significant and
potentially as radical as its French and Russian equivalents' Daily Telegraph

'Brilliant ... marvellous erudition and sympathy' David Caute, New Statesman

'This
book will outlive our time and will stand as a notable monument to the
man, the committed radical scholar, and one of the finest historians of
the age' The Times Literary Supplement

'The dean and paragon of English historians' E.P. Thompson