Quaker history and biography

The editors and Quacks Books of York are pleased to announce the publication of a new book of retrospective essays about Bretton Hall College, Wakefield.

50 years at the heart of the community... records and celebrates the evolution of Cranleigh's Arts Centre from its creation in 1974 by a group of local societies needing more space, into today's successful community arts centre that is valued by all.

This book documents the spiritual and practical impacts of discrimination in the Religious Society of Friends in the expectation that understanding the truth of our past is vital to achieving a diverse, inclusive community in the future.

Ada Salter's pioneering role in the socialist politics of the early twentieth century has, in past accounts of the period, been marginalised in favour of the work of her husband Dr Alfred Salter.

'All lovers of cricket will enjoy this book.' Michael Henderson, The Cricketer Neville Cardus described how one majestic stroke-maker 'made music' and 'spread beauty' with his bat. Between two world wars, he became the laureate of cricket by doing

This book is a commentary on Love to the Lost, a pamphlet published by the early Quaker James Nayler in February 1656.

Dear Mona collects the letters of 20 year old working class Geordie Len Jones to his mentor and would-be partner Mona Lovell, a Quaker colleague who prompted Len's explorations of the arts and of social equality.

One cousin is notorious: Alice Paul endures censure and prison to win suffrage for women. She’s a political powerhouse who organizes the first women’s march on Washington and the first pickets in front of the White House.