Quaker history and biography

William Shewen was an early-convinced and prominent member of the Religious Society of Friends in London in the mid to late seventeenth century; he was also the author of a number of tracts and books.

50 years at the heart of the community... records and celebrates the evolution of Cranleigh's Arts Centre from its creation in 1974 by a group of local societies needing more space, into today's successful community arts centre that is valued by all.

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In the course of his life, Elias Hicks (1748-1830) penned hundreds of letters, while writing only one book. The Journal of Elias Hicks is a record of service to the Religious Society of Friends, ...

Dear Mona collects the letters of 20 year old working class Geordie Len Jones to his mentor and would-be partner Mona Lovell, a Quaker colleague who prompted Len's explorations of the arts and of social equality.

Andrew Sowle was a secret printer. He learned his trade during Cromwell’s commonwealth, and practised it under the Stuart restoration. On a hidden press he printed Quaker tracts, illicitly.

A towering figure in the history of Irish Quakerism, and friend of William Penn and William Edmundson, Anthony Sharp left England in 1669 to settle in Dublin and carve a place for himself in the woolen trade. As a businessman he succeeded brilliantl