{"id":27787,"date":"2025-04-23T07:42:57","date_gmt":"2025-04-23T06:42:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/?p=27787"},"modified":"2025-04-23T08:26:50","modified_gmt":"2025-04-23T07:26:50","slug":"media-history-winstanley-1975","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/?p=27787","title":{"rendered":"MEDiA\/HiSTORY: Winstanley, 1975"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"352\" height=\"264\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/img_6785-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-27790\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/img_6785-1.jpg 352w, http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/img_6785-1-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 352px) 100vw, 352px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"155\" height=\"30\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/stars_09_fourhalf-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-27786\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/stars_09_fourhalf-1.jpg 155w, http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/stars_09_fourhalf-1-150x30.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 155px) 100vw, 155px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>I finally got around to watching this, with Patrick, yesterday. Thanks, Hannah, for gifting it. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It\u2019s beautifully filmed, in black and white (like the other superb and unusual Brownlow &amp; Mollo film <em>It Happened Here<\/em>).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Blah\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"663\" height=\"497\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/img_6790-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-27789\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/img_6790-1.jpg 663w, http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/img_6790-1-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 663px) 100vw, 663px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><a href=\"https:\/\/en.m.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Sid_Rawle\">Sid Rawle<\/a>, as a Ranter.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>NOTES:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"p1\">Winstanley, from his pamphlet:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/img_6791.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-27788\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/img_6791.jpg 640w, http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/img_6791-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"p2\">\u201cWas the earth made to preserve a few covetous, proud men to live at ease\u2026?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As usual, with a film like this, when you start looking into it, you uncover <a href=\"https:\/\/ayearinthecountry.co.uk\/day-80365-films-old-wierd-britain-celluloid-flickerings-otherly-albion\/\">other interesting stuff<\/a>. Also, I found this blog, <a href=\"https:\/\/celluloidwickerman.com\/about-3\/\">The Celluloid Wicker Man<\/a>, which is fascinating.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It\u2019s worth noting that for some folk, there has actually been a <em>second<\/em> ECW, much more recently, with events such as <a href=\"https:\/\/en.m.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Battle_of_the_Beanfield\">The Battle of The Beanfield<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/en.m.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Battle_of_Orgreave\">The Battle of Orgreave<\/a> echoing how society or the state brutally suppresses dissent.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I finally got around to watching this, with Patrick, yesterday. Thanks, Hannah, for gifting it. It\u2019s beautifully filmed, in black and white (like the other superb and unusual Brownlow &amp; Mollo film It Happened Here). Blah\u2026 NOTES: Winstanley, from his pamphlet: \u201cWas the earth made to preserve a few covetous, proud men to live at &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/?p=27787\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;MEDiA\/HiSTORY: Winstanley, 1975&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paGwUa-7eb","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27787"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=27787"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27787\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27795,"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27787\/revisions\/27795"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27787"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27787"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27787"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}