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.

Though there have never been many Quakers, these small numbers belie the sect's tremendous impact, both historical and contemporary.

Sarah Biller spent a turbulent childhood as the daughter of Alexander Kilham, Methodist rebel and founder of a breakaway church.

This book outlines the long and at times surprisingly turbulent and moving story of the Reading Quaker Meeting.

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

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

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.