Fifty Years On From One Of The Greatest Political Speeches Ever Lessons Still Haven’t Been Learnt

On 15 May 1976, Tony Benn stood in Burford Church, Oxfordshire, to commemorate three men who had been executed 327 years earlier. Private Church, Corporal Perkins and Cornet Thompson were members of the Leveller movement, shot in 1649 after Oliver Cromwell crushed a mutiny within the New Model Army. What might have seemed a historical […] The post Fifty Years On From One Of The Greatest Political Speeches Ever Lessons Still Haven’t Been Learnt appeared first on Dorset Eye.