Unveiling of the Rainsborough plaque

Click above to see footage from last year's unveiling of the plaque commemorating the resting place of Leveller leader Thomas Rainsborough in St John's churchyard, Wapping.

Speakers on the day included the late Tony Benn, Jeremy Corbyn, Rania Khan and John Rees. The event climaxes with a musket volley fired by the Thomas Rainsborough Company of The Sealed Knot.

Red Saunders' Leveller tableau

Photographer Red Saunders recreates 'important but overlooked events in Britain’s struggle for democracy and equality'.  Each work is carefully planned and lit, using costumed volunteers in tableaux vivants.

His latest exhibition features the epic Leveller Women in the English Revolution, 1647, 2011, shot in Yorkshire and involving more than 40 local people dressed in period costume ...