Early modern British and Irish history is marked by a succession
of fascinating radical movements, ideologies and events. From
Kett’s rebellion, the Family of Love and Baptists, through to
Levellers, Quakers and Whigs; from millenarians and mystics to
those who believed in free grace, community of goods and even
wives; from debates over forms of government, issues of
sovereignty and natural rights, through to advocates of
revolution and regicide, each was radical in the sense that it
challenged fundamental political, religious or social axioms of
its day. Yet significant questions remain. How useful are the
terms ‘radical’ and ‘radicalism’ and should we persist with
them? Can we speak of a ‘radical tradition’? Was radicalism a
local, national or transnational phenomenon? Send comments and
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