Quacks Books

This book has been written as an introduction to a remarkable man who was both a true Quaker of the Quietist years and a prolific writer.

Right from the start, ‘the people called Quakers’ recorded each other’s ‘dying sayings’. This book tells how, happening upon some of these by accident, a 21st century Friend learned of their speakers’ passion for equality and truth.

Quakers and the First World War provides personal accounts of how various individuals and families – the ancestors of some present-day Leeds Quakers – reacted with conscience and courage in turbulent times.

This book is not a history of York between 1914 and 1945 but an examination of the civilian population of the city at the beginning and end of the two word wars.