Levellers Day – 50th Anniversary

Saturday 17 May 2025, Warwick Hall, Burford OX18 4RY, from 10.30

On 17 May 1649, three soldiers were executed on Oliver Cromwell’s orders in Burford churchyard, Oxfordshire. They belonged to a movement popularly known as the Levellers, with beliefs in civil rights and religious tolerance.

During the Civil War, the Levellers fought on Parliament’s side, they had at first seen Cromwell as a liberator, but now saw him as a dictator. They were prepared to fight against him for their ideals and he was determined to crush them. Over 300 of them were captured by Cromwell’s troops and locked up in Burford church. Three were led out into the churchyard to be shot as ringleaders.

This year is the 50th anniversary of the celebration of this important moment of (radical) British history.

BRHG will be running a bookstall at this event. The full programme is here.

Download a flier here: Levellers Day flier 2025