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The Putney Debates, which took place from 28 October to 8 November 1647, were a series of discussions over the political settlement that should follow Parliament's victory over Charles I in the First English Civil War.
The Putney Debates – A founding moment of British democracy. By the summer of 1647, Parliament had won the First Civil War. At the battles of Naseby and Langport, the New Model Army had crushed the Royalist field armies and the King himself was now their prisoner. But all was not well on the parliamentary side.
Oct 28, 2021 · Christopher Hill and E. P. Thompson connect Putney with the transformation of radical religious ideas into popular political discourse. Universal suffrage found its first serious expression at Putney, and several articles of the Agreement are now cornerstones of British democracy.
Jan 10, 2014 · Emphasis upon the content of the dispute over the franchise has served to elevate the Putney debates into a symbolic event, a milestone in the struggle between privilege and liberty which dominated English history for two and a half centuries and English historiography ever since.
Colonel Thomas Rainborowe uttered these famous words in 1647 during the civil war in the extraordinary debates between parliamentary army leaders , soldiers and members of a political movement known as the Levellers.
at Putney has inhibited our understanding of the conduct of the partici- pants and of the debates as a sincere effort to achieve a peaceful settlement to the English civil war.
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Apr 18, 2013 · For several weeks in late 1647, after the defeat of King Charles I in the first hostilities of the Civil War, representatives of the New Model Army and the radical Levellers met in a church in...
