We get a mention in Jess Baine’s recent wiki on radical and community printshops…”the co-operative named ‘Calverts’ in honour of Giles and Elizabeth Calvert…”.

But who were Giles and Elizabeth Calvert?

Radical seventeenth century publishers during the  English Civil war, purveyors of ’soul-poysons’, members of the sect My One Flesh, imprisoned for printing books such as Richard Overton’s The last warning to all the inhabitants of London and Lawrence Clarkson’s ‘impious and blasphemous’ book A single eye – all light, no darkness, the Calverts operated from their print shop at the Sign of the Black Spread Eagle* at the west end of St Paul’s Churchyard in London…download PDF for more.

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