Quaker history and biography

Transcending Traditions and breaking down the walls which divide people characterise all of the late Marjorie Sykes writings.

Record of Burials and Ashes including Alton Quakers buries elswhere.

An area in the South of what is now Cumbria is known as "1652 Country" because this is where George Fox won many followers to his vision of what he saw as the pure and genuine principles of Christianity in their original simplicity.

A collection of poetry, prose, music and art by members and supporters of the Quaker community in and around York. Where does writing come from? Janet Deane Why do I write?

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.

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.

Although antebellum African Americans were sometimes allowed to attend Quaker services, they were almost never admitted to full "meeting" membership,as was Miles Lassiter.His story illuminates the unfolding of the 19thcentury color line into the 20th