Quaker history and biography

Displaced By War : Gertrude Powicke and Quaker Relief in France and Poland 1915-1919

The Friends Ambulance Unit 'China Convoy' 1945-1951. China in the late 1940s was an ancient society still in the grips of feudalism, desperately poor and in need of modernisation. Jack Jones wrote a contemporary account of day to day life there.

A quaker family's history from 1660 to the present day. Antony Barlow, one of the five children of ralph and joan Barlow, is the descendant of one of the oldest Quaker families, whose ancestor james Lancaster was one of The Society of Friends

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.

Friends in Deed is the inspiring and deeply human story of Quaker Service Australia, begun fifty years ago by a small group of people who wanted to help change the world, one step at a time.

George Fox through his leadership and writingsis regarded as the seminal figure of Society of Friends. The son of a leicestershire weaver, he left home at the age of nineteen in search of men and women who were on a like spiritual pilgrimage.

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.

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, ...