Gerard Winstanley - England's Pioneer Green?
No decade in British history has surely produced as many prophets without honour as the 1640s, that period of exceptional social and intellectual ferment when it really did seem that the world had turned upside down. With the toppling of the monarchy and the established political and religious order in the Civil War there was an eruption of small sects such as the Seekers, Ranters, Fifth Monarchists and Muggletonians. Nearly all were doomed to a short life, fading away into oblivion with the Restoration of the monarchy and the Established Church in 1660.
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