Quaker history and biography

Quaker views on women have always been considered progressive in their own time (beginning in the 17th century), and in the late 19th century this tendency bore fruit in the prominence of Quaker women in the American women's rights movement.

The iron curtain was giving way or at least becoming permeable in the age of perestroika.

Sheila Hancock sat down to write a book about a serene and fulfilled old age. This is not that book. In Old Rage, one of Britain's best-loved actors opens up about her tenth decade.

English cowboy, tramp, author, adulterer, social reformer, preacher. This lovingly written, but brutally honest, biography by the subject's grandson belongs to an unusual genre - the spiritual thriller.

Edmund Rack, a Quaker, moved to Bath from rural Essex in 1775. He seems to have been self-confident, popular, charitable, and steadfast in his Quaker principles, a figure from Bath’s past it would have been good to know.

"A Testimony to the God as Shown in the Life of James Nayler 1618-1660"