Levellers (disambiguation)

Levellers (disambiguation)

Levellers has several meanings:

17th Century:
*Levellers, the English Civil Wars and Interregnum movement of agitators for political reform.
*Diggers, also called True Levellers, an anarchist or communist land rights movement (1649–1651)20th Century:
*The Leveller (magazine), a British radical political magazine published in the 1970s
*The Levellers, a contemporary British music group and band

;See also
Levellers Day Each year since 1975, Levellers' Day has been held in the Oxfordshire town of Burford to commemorate the three Levellers executed there.


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