James Crossley
@jc01229.bsky.social
Runs CenSAMM. Univ. of Cambridge & MF Oslo. Prof. & critical studier of religion, politics, John Ball/1381, A. L. Morton, apocalypticism, historical Jesus, English radical tradition. https://www.divinity.cam.ac.uk/staff/professor-james-crossley
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James Crossley
@jc01229.bsky.social
· Nov 15
English Radical Tradition
History and Reception of English Radical Politics and Religion
johnball1381.org
For all things John Ball and A. L. Morton (and much more English radical tradition to follow), see... johnball1381.org
New podcast on William Grindecobbe, John Wrawe, and John Ball and their millenarian (or otherwise) activities in the 1381 uprising censamm.org/blog/wrawe-g...
New CenSAMM Podcast: John Wrawe, William Grindecobbe, and John Ball | CenSAMM
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August 4, 2025 at 1:26 PM
New podcast on William Grindecobbe, John Wrawe, and John Ball and their millenarian (or otherwise) activities in the 1381 uprising censamm.org/blog/wrawe-g...
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A.L. Morton and the Radical Tradition
Thursday, 26 June 2025 - 7:00pm
Marx Memorial Library, 37a Clerkenwell Green, London
In person and online
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A.L. Morton and the Radical Tradition
Thursday, 26 June 2025 - 7:00pm
Marx Memorial Library, 37a Clerkenwell Green, London
In person and online
www.marx-memorial-library.org.uk/event/504
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May 19, 2025 at 12:48 PM
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A.L. Morton and the Radical Tradition
Thursday, 26 June 2025 - 7:00pm
Marx Memorial Library, 37a Clerkenwell Green, London
In person and online
www.marx-memorial-library.org.uk/event/504
A.L. Morton and the Radical Tradition
Thursday, 26 June 2025 - 7:00pm
Marx Memorial Library, 37a Clerkenwell Green, London
In person and online
www.marx-memorial-library.org.uk/event/504
Full talk to SHS now available on A. L. Morton's life and work
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A L Morton: Life in the Radical Tradition
YouTube video by Steve Cushion
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April 15, 2025 at 9:28 AM
Full talk to SHS now available on A. L. Morton's life and work
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Morton posting will end in 2026 labourhub.org.uk/2025/04/02/r...
Remembering A. L. Morton, Historian of English Radicalism
Ahead of a talk to the Socialist History Society tomorrow, James Crossley looks at the life of a trailblazing historian. A. L. Morton (1903–1987) is best remembered for A People’s History of Englan…
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April 2, 2025 at 5:23 PM
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Reminder
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A. L. Morton: Life in the Radical Tradition
Thursday 3rd April 2025
Speaker: James Crossley
All welcome, but advance registration required.
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A. L. Morton: Life in the Radical Tradition
Thursday 3rd April 2025
Speaker: James Crossley
All welcome, but advance registration required.
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Welcome! You are invited to join a meeting: A. L. Morton: Life in the Radical Tradition. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the meeting.
Welcome! You are invited to join a meeting: A. L. Morton: Life in the Radical Tradition. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the meeting.
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April 1, 2025 at 3:03 PM
Reminder
Reposted by James Crossley
Today's Ehrhardt Seminar is underway, with @jc01229.bsky.social speaking on 'Meeting Old Quests Again for the First Time: The Historical Jesus among British Dissenters, Radicals, and the Working Class (c. 1790-c.1850)'
March 27, 2025 at 4:36 PM
Today's Ehrhardt Seminar is underway, with @jc01229.bsky.social speaking on 'Meeting Old Quests Again for the First Time: The Historical Jesus among British Dissenters, Radicals, and the Working Class (c. 1790-c.1850)'
Is everything we dont like "apocalyptic"?
We're excited to share that the new edition of the Journal of the British Association for the Study of Religions is now out (Vol. 26, 2024).
Vol 26 (2024): Environmental Endings and Religious Futures
| Journal of the British Association for the Study of Religion (JBASR)
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March 26, 2025 at 4:35 PM
Is everything we dont like "apocalyptic"?
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A. L. Morton: Life in the Radical Tradition
Thursday 3rd April 2025
Speaker: James Crossley
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A. L. Morton: Life in the Radical Tradition
Thursday 3rd April 2025
Speaker: James Crossley
All welcome, but advance registration required.
ucl.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
Welcome! You are invited to join a meeting: A. L. Morton: Life in the Radical Tradition. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the meeting.
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March 25, 2025 at 10:17 AM
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Thursday 3rd April 2025
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A. L. Morton: Life in the Radical Tradition
Thursday 3rd April 2025
Speaker: James Crossley
All welcome, but advance registration required.
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Recording available soon, unless I botch it, obviously
Tomorrow as part of the Apocalypticism and Millenarian Movements Seminar at Cambridge, James Crossley will discuss his new book, an intellectual biography of A. L. Morton.
The seminar will meet as usual in Faculty of Divinity, Room 7, Tuesday 11 March, 4.30–5.30pm The talk will be recorded.
The seminar will meet as usual in Faculty of Divinity, Room 7, Tuesday 11 March, 4.30–5.30pm The talk will be recorded.
March 10, 2025 at 1:37 PM
Recording available soon, unless I botch it, obviously
A. L. Morton biography now in @mstaronline.bsky.social ow.ly/FMPo50Vczxo
The enduring power of radical ideas
PHIL KATZ applauds the biography of a man of principle that is a vibrant excavation of the radical tradition itself
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March 7, 2025 at 8:59 PM
A. L. Morton biography now in @mstaronline.bsky.social ow.ly/FMPo50Vczxo
Reposted by James Crossley
Are you famliar with the Palgrave Studies in Utopianism series? The latest publication in the series, A. L. Morton and the Radical Tradition, is from our Academic Director, Professor James Crossley. Check it and the rest of the series out here: link.springer.com/series/15242
Palgrave Studies in Utopianism
Utopianism is an interdisciplinary concept which covers philosophy, sociology, literature, history of ideas, art and architecture, religion, futurology and ...
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March 4, 2025 at 5:38 PM
Are you famliar with the Palgrave Studies in Utopianism series? The latest publication in the series, A. L. Morton and the Radical Tradition, is from our Academic Director, Professor James Crossley. Check it and the rest of the series out here: link.springer.com/series/15242
Reposted by James Crossley
"Where his contemporary Norman Cohn represented an influential ‘liberal’ scholarly reading of millenarianism as having a malign political influence, ...
A. L. Morton - CDAMM
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March 3, 2025 at 6:23 PM
"Where his contemporary Norman Cohn represented an influential ‘liberal’ scholarly reading of millenarianism as having a malign political influence, ...
A. L. Morton and the Radical Tradition out now! link.springer.com/book/10.1007...
A. L. Morton and the Radical Tradition
This book covers the life of Communist activist, historian, and literary critic, A. L. Morton, who pioneered studies in utopianism and radical history.
link.springer.com
January 27, 2025 at 12:33 PM
A. L. Morton and the Radical Tradition out now! link.springer.com/book/10.1007...
Reposted by James Crossley
The Apocalypticism and Millenarian Movements Seminar are starting back up later this month starting on 28 January, 4.30pm.
Seminars will take place in Room 7, Faculty of Divinity, University of Cambridge.
Seminars will take place in Room 7, Faculty of Divinity, University of Cambridge.
January 24, 2025 at 3:46 PM
The Apocalypticism and Millenarian Movements Seminar are starting back up later this month starting on 28 January, 4.30pm.
Seminars will take place in Room 7, Faculty of Divinity, University of Cambridge.
Seminars will take place in Room 7, Faculty of Divinity, University of Cambridge.
CenSAMM seminars for this term...
January 16, 2025 at 2:28 PM
CenSAMM seminars for this term...
Reposted by James Crossley
It's John Milton's birthday! We are lucky to look after a copy of the original issue of his 'Lycidas' (part of a 1638 collection of poems marking the death of Edward King), with corrections & additions in Milton's own hand. Find out more on our Digital Library. cudl.lib.cam.ac.uk/view/PR-ADV-...
December 9, 2024 at 10:01 AM
It's John Milton's birthday! We are lucky to look after a copy of the original issue of his 'Lycidas' (part of a 1638 collection of poems marking the death of Edward King), with corrections & additions in Milton's own hand. Find out more on our Digital Library. cudl.lib.cam.ac.uk/view/PR-ADV-...
Next CenSAMM Seminar:
Justin Meggitt, “‘Babilons Bastards’ [sic] and the End of Hell: Benjamin Lay’s Antislavery Exegesis of Revelation” (Tuesday 26 November, 4.30–5.30pm)
Room 7, Faculty of Divinity, University of Cambridge
Justin Meggitt, “‘Babilons Bastards’ [sic] and the End of Hell: Benjamin Lay’s Antislavery Exegesis of Revelation” (Tuesday 26 November, 4.30–5.30pm)
Room 7, Faculty of Divinity, University of Cambridge
November 25, 2024 at 11:29 AM
Next CenSAMM Seminar:
Justin Meggitt, “‘Babilons Bastards’ [sic] and the End of Hell: Benjamin Lay’s Antislavery Exegesis of Revelation” (Tuesday 26 November, 4.30–5.30pm)
Room 7, Faculty of Divinity, University of Cambridge
Justin Meggitt, “‘Babilons Bastards’ [sic] and the End of Hell: Benjamin Lay’s Antislavery Exegesis of Revelation” (Tuesday 26 November, 4.30–5.30pm)
Room 7, Faculty of Divinity, University of Cambridge
Morton's close friend (Hill, that is) also has a biography coming out early 2025...
The late Christopher Hill was central to my life and work. I look forward to reviewing this book for @thenation.com: *Christopher Hill: The Life of a Radical Historian* by Michael Braddick, to be published by @VersoBks in February 2025.
November 18, 2024 at 11:19 AM
Morton's close friend (Hill, that is) also has a biography coming out early 2025...
Reposted by James Crossley
For all things John Ball and A. L. Morton (and much more English radical tradition to follow), see... johnball1381.org
English Radical Tradition
History and Reception of English Radical Politics and Religion
johnball1381.org
November 15, 2024 at 3:30 PM
For all things John Ball and A. L. Morton (and much more English radical tradition to follow), see... johnball1381.org
Reposted by James Crossley
Since I'm new here, can I re-up a project of which I am v proud? It's the complete Eric Hobsbawm Bibliography - a fully searchable database of all his published & unpublished works + a set of curated thematic lists to introduce select topics. It was a labour of love. Link: hobsbawm.shca.ed.ac.uk
November 15, 2024 at 11:29 AM
Since I'm new here, can I re-up a project of which I am v proud? It's the complete Eric Hobsbawm Bibliography - a fully searchable database of all his published & unpublished works + a set of curated thematic lists to introduce select topics. It was a labour of love. Link: hobsbawm.shca.ed.ac.uk
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