Peter Linebaugh
Historian and author specializing in commons, enclosure, crime, and early modern and Atlantic working-class history, known for books such as The London Hanged and The Magna Carta Manifesto.
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Feb 10, 2026 • 1h 42min
The Commons w/ Peter Linebaugh
Peter Linebaugh, historian of the commons and enclosure, explores long histories of commoning and how shared labor sustained communities. He traces enclosure as violent dispossession tied to empire and legal change. The conversation follows commons’ customs, resistance movements like the Diggers, and links between rural expropriation and colonial conquest.
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Mar 3, 2026 • 1h 41min
The Dig: Breaking the Machine w/ Peter Linebaugh
Peter Linebaugh, historian of commons and enclosure, discusses Luddite machine-breaking and its defense as political action. He traces enclosure, capital punishment, and imprisonment in forging capitalist rule. Connections are drawn to slavery, industrial discipline, and modern gig-tech control.
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Feb 11, 2026 • 1h 42min
The Dig: The Commons w/ Peter Linebaugh
Peter Linebaugh, historian of the commons and radical Atlantic history, explores long histories of commoning and how enclosure linked to imperial conquest. He traces medieval customs, criminalization of subsistence practices, and connections between enclosure, colonization, and the making of a dispossessed working class. The conversation highlights resistance, legal changes, and intellectual currents that justified expropriation.
