I like Meg's 'liaison' post. I had the same reaction when I used to get the odd letter from a sales rep addressing me as Mr Sutch and saying how pleased they had been to meet me . . .
posted by Lesley Telford at 10:40 AM

 
I was sad to read Christopher Hill's obituary today. I met him when we were working on "The Sea Green Man", and I was doing some background research on the Levellers and the English radicals in the seventeenth century. Back in the 1980s it took days to order the references from the British Library, but delightful now to find a lot of those pamphlets on the web - England's Standard, the Agreement of the People. It all came as a revelation to me back then, but there is some recognition of the debates here now - I went with Patrick down to St Mary's Church to hear Tony Benn speaking on the debates some years ago. I was looking for a picture of Hill and found this lecture on Winstanley. They were all amazing men - John Lilburn, William Walwyn, Thomas Prince and Richard Overton.
posted by Lesley Telford at 7:59 PM