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A novel about Gerrard Winstanley (1609- 1676)

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                           David Caute - 'Comrade Jacob'                                                                             Digger tract by William Everard from 1649  -courtesy Wikipedia- in public domain                          Author and playwright David Caute ( born 1936) , attended seminars given by historian Christopher Hill at Oxford University in the late 1950's. Christopher Hill (1912-2003) , one time master of Balliol College, a Communist who broke with the more orthodox party line following the 1956 Soviet  invasion of Hungary, depicted the British Civil Wars as 'The English Revolution' -the title of his first book published ...