Definitions for "Winstanley"
Winstanley is the title of a film made in 1975 in the UK by Kevin Brownlow and Andrew Mollo, based on the 1962 David Caute novel Comrade Jacob (ASIN: B0007E2A6Q). This deals with some of the life story of the 17th Century social reformer and writer Gerard Winstanley, who, along with a small band of followers known as The Diggers tried to establish a self-sufficient farming community on common land at St. George's Hill near Cobham in Surrey.