Sessions of York

A record of dissent in the 17th and 18th centuries.

John Woolman, quintessential Quaker, was far ahead of his time. Aside from writing a celebrated Journal and many essays, he was an anti-slavery pioneer - long before there was an abolitionist movement.

This book will be of interest to all who know Marjorie Sykes, in India and elsewhere, to those connected with Gandhian movements, to Quakers around the world and to any who value learning of a life lived with positive porpose.

The name of Martha Simmons would have been well known amongst the members of the London book trade in the 1650s as her husband, Thomas Simmons, and her brother Giles Calvert, were the first two major Quaker publishers.

A Quaker view of Human Rights. This collection of essays offers insights both into the narure of human rights and the radical thinking that informs them. The authors represent a diversity of perspectives that is rooted in a shared sense of equality.

A Quaker view of Human Rights. This collection of essays offers insights both into the narure of human rights and the radical thinking that informs them. The authors represent a diversity of perspectives that is rooted in a shared sense of equality.

Quakers write of their experience of the spirit of other faiths, including Animism, Brahma Kumaris, Buddhism, Christianity and Quaker practice, Hinduism, Islam and Judaism.