New podcast on William Grindecobbe, John Wrawe, and John Ball and their millenarian (or otherwise) activities in the 1381 uprising censamm.org/blog/wrawe-g...
04.08.2025 13:26 β π 2 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0@jc01229.bsky.social
Runs CenSAMM. Univ. of Cambridge & MF Oslo. Prof. & critical studier of religion, politics, John Ball/1381, A. L. Morton, apocalypticism, historical Jesus, English radical tradition. https://www.divinity.cam.ac.uk/staff/professor-james-crossley
New podcast on William Grindecobbe, John Wrawe, and John Ball and their millenarian (or otherwise) activities in the 1381 uprising censamm.org/blog/wrawe-g...
04.08.2025 13:26 β π 2 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0Register!
A.L. Morton and the Radical Tradition
Thursday, 26 June 2025 - 7:00pm
Marx Memorial Library, 37a Clerkenwell Green, London
In person and online
www.marx-memorial-library.org.uk/event/504
Full talk to SHS now available on A. L. Morton's life and work
youtu.be/9E5JoLDX9CQ?...
Morton posting will end in 2026 labourhub.org.uk/2025/04/02/r...
02.04.2025 17:23 β π 2 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0Reminder
01.04.2025 15:03 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0A screengrab of a slide titled "Jesus in Durham County Prison" and James speaking.
Today's Ehrhardt Seminar is underway, with @jc01229.bsky.social speaking on 'Meeting Old Quests Again for the First Time: The Historical Jesus among British Dissenters, Radicals, and the Working Class (c. 1790-c.1850)'
27.03.2025 16:36 β π 2 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0Is everything we dont like "apocalyptic"?
26.03.2025 16:35 β π 3 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0Sign up:
A. L. Morton: Life in the Radical Tradition
Thursday 3rd April 2025
Speaker: James Crossley
All welcome, but advance registration required.
ucl.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
Recording available soon, unless I botch it, obviously
10.03.2025 13:37 β π 8 π 3 π¬ 0 π 0A. L. Morton biography now in @mstaronline.bsky.social ow.ly/FMPo50Vczxo
07.03.2025 20:59 β π 4 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0Are you famliar with the Palgrave Studies in Utopianism series? The latest publication in the series, A. L. Morton and the Radical Tradition, is from our Academic Director, Professor James Crossley. Check it and the rest of the series out here: link.springer.com/series/15242
04.03.2025 17:38 β π 5 π 2 π¬ 1 π 0"Where his contemporary Norman Cohn represented an influential βliberalβ scholarly reading of millenarianism as having a malign political influence, ...
03.03.2025 18:23 β π 1 π 1 π¬ 1 π 0A. L. Morton and the Radical Tradition out now! link.springer.com/book/10.1007...
27.01.2025 12:33 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0The Apocalypticism and Millenarian Movements Seminar are starting back up later this month starting on 28 January, 4.30pm.
Seminars will take place in Room 7, Faculty of Divinity, University of Cambridge.
CenSAMM seminars for this term...
16.01.2025 14:28 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Here we go
12.12.2024 12:54 β π 6 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0It's John Milton's birthday! We are lucky to look after a copy of the original issue of his 'Lycidas' (part of a 1638 collection of poems marking the death of Edward King), with corrections & additions in Milton's own hand. Find out more on our Digital Library. cudl.lib.cam.ac.uk/view/PR-ADV-...
09.12.2024 10:01 β π 106 π 16 π¬ 2 π 3Next CenSAMM Seminar:
Justin Meggitt, ββBabilons Bastardsβ [sic] and the End of Hell: Benjamin Layβs Antislavery Exegesis of Revelationβ (Tuesday 26 November, 4.30β5.30pm)
Room 7, Faculty of Divinity, University of Cambridge
Thanks, and interested to discuss further. Timing of two biographies on Historians' Group members (not to mention work on your man Samuel) is unintentional but...significant? Not sure what that significance would be tho
19.11.2024 10:17 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Morton's close friend (Hill, that is) also has a biography coming out early 2025...
18.11.2024 11:19 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0The answer to Rev. 1:13 is Mateczka www.equinoxpub.com/home/mariavi...
16.11.2024 16:06 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0A review of the new book features in the Morning Star:
morningstaronline.co.uk/article/outs...
For all things John Ball and A. L. Morton (and much more English radical tradition to follow), see... johnball1381.org
15.11.2024 15:30 β π 2 π 2 π¬ 0 π 0Since I'm new here, can I re-up a project of which I am v proud? It's the complete Eric Hobsbawm Bibliography - a fully searchable database of all his published & unpublished works + a set of curated thematic lists to introduce select topics. It was a labour of love. Link: hobsbawm.shca.ed.ac.uk
15.11.2024 11:29 β π 265 π 84 π¬ 4 π 5John Foster fs
www.manifestopress.coop/product/pre-...
Jezreel's Tower
14.11.2024 13:35 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0Back to the Panacea Museum to talk towers and the apocalypse
14.11.2024 12:23 β π 3 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Tomorrow at 12.30pm at Panacea Museum (Bedford, Uk) a talk on towers and/in apocalypticism. Book free tickets here: panaceamuseum.org/events
The current exhibition & and associated events are part of
#BeingHuman2024