Quaker history and biography

Sergei Nikitin has written an exemplary account, vivid and well-researched, of the Quaker relief mission to Russia.

'Here Levellers, Diggers, Ranters, Muggletonians, the early Quakers and others taking advantage of the collapse of censorship to bid for new kinds of freedom were given centre stage' Times Higher Education

Essays in Quaker History consists of 7 illustrated scholarly essays by David Rubinstein with a foreword by David Boulton.

When John Thaw, star of The Sweeney and Inspector Morse, died from cancer in 2002, a nation lost one of its finest actors and Sheila Hancock lost a beloved husband.

Kathleen Lonsdale was a groundbreaking chemist who was instrumental in developing the science of crystallography. She was also a midlife convert to Quakerism who campaigned for peace and prison reform.

Centred on the ancient wapentakes of East and West Staincliffe, this study examines some of the factors which resulted in the North Yorkshire Pennines becoming a notable centre of independent, radical religion ...

Horace Alexander is best rememberd among Quakers for his work as a peacemaker. This book deals with his other major interest, the study of birds, in which he was already engaged as a teenager at the beginning of the 20th century.