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James Crossley

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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. www.divinity.cam.ac.uk/staff/profes…

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James Crossley @jc01229.bsky.social · 03/05/2026
The big question: Was Archibald Robertson (sometime scholar of Christian origins) in the Communist Party Historians' Group? open.substack.com/pub/jamescro...
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Was Archibald Robertson in the Communist Party Historians' Group?
Chrissy Hansen has an interesting Substack on Archibald Robertson, collecting a wide range of information on an often-forgotten scholar of (among other things) Christian origins.
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James Crossley @jc01229.bsky.social · 04/08/2025
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...
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New CenSAMM Podcast: John Wrawe, William Grindecobbe, and John Ball | CenSAMM
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James Crossley @jc01229.bsky.social · 19/05/2025
Register! 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
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Event display | Marx Memorial Library
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James Crossley @jc01229.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
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James Crossley @jc01229.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
Full talk to SHS now available on A. L. Morton's life and work youtu.be/9E5JoLDX9CQ?...
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A L Morton: Life in the Radical Tradition
YouTube video by Steve Cushion
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James Crossley @jc01229.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
Morton posting will end in 2026 labourhub.org.uk/2025/04/02/r...
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Remembering A. L. Morton, Historian of English Radicalism
Ahead of a talk to the Socialist History Society tomorrow, James Crossley looks at the life of a trailblazing historian. A. L. Morton (1903–1987) is best remembered for A People’s History of Englan…
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James Crossley @jc01229.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
Reminder
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UoM Religion @uomreligion.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
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)'
A screengrab of a slide titled "Jesus in Durham County Prison" and James speaking.
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James Crossley @jc01229.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
Is everything we dont like "apocalyptic"?
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James Crossley @jc01229.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
Sign 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...
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Welcome! You are invited to join a meeting: A. L. Morton: Life in the Radical Tradition. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the meeting.
Welcome! You are invited to join a meeting: A. L. Morton: Life in the Radical Tradition. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the meeting.
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James Crossley @jc01229.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
Recording available soon, unless I botch it, obviously
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James Crossley @jc01229.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
A. L. Morton biography now in @mstaronline.bsky.social ow.ly/FMPo50Vczxo
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The enduring power of radical ideas
PHIL KATZ applauds the biography of a man of principle that is a vibrant excavation of the radical tradition itself
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CenSAMM @censamm.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
Are 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
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Palgrave Studies in Utopianism
Utopianism is an interdisciplinary concept which covers philosophy, sociology, literature, history of ideas, art and architecture, religion, futurology and ...
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CenSAMM @censamm.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
"Where his contemporary Norman Cohn represented an influential ‘liberal’ scholarly reading of millenarianism as having a malign political influence, ...
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A. L. Morton - CDAMM
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James Crossley @jc01229.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
A. L. Morton and the Radical Tradition out now! link.springer.com/book/10.1007...
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A. L. Morton and the Radical Tradition
This book covers the life of Communist activist, historian, and literary critic, A. L. Morton, who pioneered studies in utopianism and radical history.
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CenSAMM @censamm.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
The 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.
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James Crossley @jc01229.bsky.social · 16/01/2025
CenSAMM seminars for this term...
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James Crossley @jc01229.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
Here we go
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Cambridge UL Special Collections @theulspeccoll.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
It'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-...
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James Crossley @jc01229.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
Next CenSAMM Seminar: Justin Meggitt, “‘Babilons Bastards’ [sic] and the End of Hell: Benjamin Lay’s Antislavery Exegesis of Revelation” (Tuesday 26 November, 4.30–5.30pm) Room 7, Faculty of Divinity, University of Cambridge
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James Crossley @jc01229.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
Morton's close friend (Hill, that is) also has a biography coming out early 2025...
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Gavin Brewis @gavinbrewis.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
A review of the new book features in the Morning Star: morningstaronline.co.uk/article/outs...
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Outstanding Marxist historiographer
ELAINE MCFARLAND and JIM WHISTON introduce a collection of essays published in honour of Professor John Foster
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James Crossley @jc01229.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
For all things John Ball and A. L. Morton (and much more English radical tradition to follow), see... johnball1381.org
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English Radical Tradition
History and Reception of English Radical Politics and Religion
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Emile Chabal @emile-chabal.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
Since 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
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James Crossley @jc01229.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
John Foster fs www.manifestopress.coop/product/pre-...
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James Crossley @jc01229.bsky.social · 14/11/2024
Jezreel's Tower
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James Crossley @jc01229.bsky.social · 14/11/2024
Back to the Panacea Museum to talk towers and the apocalypse
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James Crossley @jc01229.bsky.social · 13/11/2024
Tomorrow 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
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James Crossley @jc01229.bsky.social · 12/11/2024
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