11 Facts About Diggers

Diggers were a group of religious and political dissidents in England, associated with agrarian socialism.

The Diggers tried to reform the existing social order with an agrarian lifestyle based on their ideas for the creation of small, egalitarian rural communities.

Diggers were driven from one colony after another by the authorities.

The Diggers' beliefs were informed by Winstanley's writings which envisioned an ecological interrelationship between humans and nature, acknowledging the inherent connections between people and their surroundings; Winstanley declared that "true freedom lies where a man receives his nourishment and preservation, and that is in the use of the earth".

Where exactly in St George's Hill the Diggers were is a matter of dispute.

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The harassment from the Lord of the Manor, Francis Drake, was both deliberate and systematic: he organised gangs in an attack on the Diggers, including numerous beatings and an arson attack on one of the communal houses.

Diggers used his power to stop local people helping them and he organised attacks on the Diggers and their property.

The Iver Diggers recorded that nine of the Wellingborough Diggers were arrested and imprisoned in Northampton jail and although no charges could be proved against them the justice refused to release them.

San Francisco Diggers were a community-action group of activists and Street Theatre actors operating from 1966 to 1968, based in the Haight-Ashbury neighborhood of San Francisco.

Since the revival of anarchism in the British anti-roads movement, the Diggers have been celebrated as precursors of land squatting and communalism.

Bolton Diggers were established in 2013 and have promoted the commons as a foil to privatisation.