Levellers Day - Saturday 11 May 2019
Join TUC LESE in Burford, Oxfordshire, to remember the achievements, sacrifice and legacy of the radical thinkers and political activists known as ‘The Levellers’
45th Annual Levellers Day Commemoration, Saturday 11 May 2019
Midday (12.00): Commemoration
In the churchyard, Burford Church, Church Green, Burford OX18 4RY
We will commemorate Levellers Cornet James Thompson, Corporal Perkins, and Private John Church, who were executed in the churchyard, 17 May 1649
The commemoration will be led by the Reverend Andrew Allen, Chaplain and Bishop Radford Official Fellow, Exeter College, Oxford
Flowers will be laid for the Levellers who were executed, and for Tony Benn, who did so much to ensure that they were remembered
The ‘Sea Green Singers’ choir, and members of the ‘Didcot Red Kites’ choir, will perform at the beginning and end of the commemoration in the Churchyard
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