James Crossley @jc01229.bsky.social · 09/10/2026The Uprising is now out so here is something on its place in the reception history of the Peasants' Revolt, violence and nonviolence, historical sources (sort of), and why reference to Robin Hood isn't as unusual as some think... jamescrossley3.substack.com/p/the-uprisi... 110
James Crossley @jc01229.bsky.social · 06/10/2026On Jeffrey Archer... jamescrossley3.substack.com/p/jeffrey-ar... 120
James Crossley @jc01229.bsky.social · 03/05/2026The big question: Was Archibald Robertson (sometime scholar of Christian origins) in the Communist Party Historians' Group? open.substack.com/pub/jamescro...open.substack.comWas 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. 070
James Crossley @jc01229.bsky.social · 04/08/2025New podcast on William Grindecobbe, John Wrawe, and John Ball and their millenarian (or otherwise) activities in the 1381 uprising censamm.org/blog/wrawe-g...censamm.orgNew CenSAMM Podcast: John Wrawe, William Grindecobbe, and John Ball | CenSAMM 031
James Crossley @jc01229.bsky.social · 19/05/2025Register! 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/504marx-memorial-library.org.ukEvent display | Marx Memorial Library 010
James Crossley @jc01229.bsky.social · 15/04/2025Full talk to SHS now available on A. L. Morton's life and work youtu.be/9E5JoLDX9CQ?...youtu.beA L Morton: Life in the Radical TraditionYouTube video by Steve Cushion 151
James Crossley @jc01229.bsky.social · 02/04/2025Morton posting will end in 2026 labourhub.org.uk/2025/04/02/r...labourhub.org.ukRemembering A. L. Morton, Historian of English RadicalismAhead 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… 021
Reposted by James CrossleyUoM Religion @uomreligion.bsky.social · 27/03/2025Today'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)' 021
James Crossley @jc01229.bsky.social · 25/03/2025Sign 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...ucl.zoom.usWelcome! 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. 021
James Crossley @jc01229.bsky.social · 10/03/2025Recording available soon, unless I botch it, obviously 083
James Crossley @jc01229.bsky.social · 07/03/2025A. L. Morton biography now in @mstaronline.bsky.social ow.ly/FMPo50Vczxoow.lyThe enduring power of radical ideasPHIL KATZ applauds the biography of a man of principle that is a vibrant excavation of the radical tradition itself 041
Reposted by James CrossleyCenSAMM @censamm.bsky.social · 04/03/2025Are 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/15242link.springer.comPalgrave Studies in UtopianismUtopianism is an interdisciplinary concept which covers philosophy, sociology, literature, history of ideas, art and architecture, religion, futurology and ... 152
Reposted by James CrossleyCenSAMM @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, ...cdamm.orgA. L. Morton - CDAMM 111
James Crossley @jc01229.bsky.social · 27/01/2025A. L. Morton and the Radical Tradition out now! link.springer.com/book/10.1007...link.springer.comA. L. Morton and the Radical TraditionThis book covers the life of Communist activist, historian, and literary critic, A. L. Morton, who pioneered studies in utopianism and radical history. 020
Reposted by James CrossleyCenSAMM @censamm.bsky.social · 24/01/2025The 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. 043
Reposted by James CrossleyCambridge UL Special Collections @theulspeccoll.bsky.social · 09/12/2024It'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-... 210616
James Crossley @jc01229.bsky.social · 25/11/2024Next 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 010
James Crossley @jc01229.bsky.social · 19/11/2024Thanks, 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 010
James Crossley @jc01229.bsky.social · 18/11/2024Morton's close friend (Hill, that is) also has a biography coming out early 2025... 120
James Crossley @jc01229.bsky.social · 16/11/2024The answer to Rev. 1:13 is Mateczka www.equinoxpub.com/home/mariavi...equinoxpub.comThe Mariavites; Heresy, The Apocalypse, and Poland's Female Savior; Cyrocki - Equinox Publishing 010
Reposted by James CrossleyGavin Brewis @gavinbrewis.bsky.social · 15/11/2024A review of the new book features in the Morning Star: morningstaronline.co.uk/article/outs...morningstaronline.co.ukOutstanding Marxist historiographerELAINE MCFARLAND and JIM WHISTON introduce a collection of essays published in honour of Professor John Foster 093
James Crossley @jc01229.bsky.social · 15/11/2024For all things John Ball and A. L. Morton (and much more English radical tradition to follow), see... johnball1381.orgjohnball1381.orgEnglish Radical TraditionHistory and Reception of English Radical Politics and Religion 022
Reposted by James CrossleyEmile Chabal @emile-chabal.bsky.social · 15/11/2024Since 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 426584
James Crossley @jc01229.bsky.social · 15/11/2024John Foster fs www.manifestopress.coop/product/pre-... 031
James Crossley @jc01229.bsky.social · 14/11/2024Back to the Panacea Museum to talk towers and the apocalypse 030
James Crossley @jc01229.bsky.social · 13/11/2024Tomorrow 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 041