Quaker history and biography

The Fearless Benjamin Lay chronicles the transatlantic life and times of a singular and astonishing man-a Quaker dwarf who became one of the first ever to demand the total, unconditional emancipation of all enslaved Africans around the world.

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

The Friends Way is a grand walk that starts in Barley, Lancashire, passing over the summit of Pendle Hill to and through some of the finest parts of the Yorkshire Dales to end at Sedbergh. It combines glorious scenery with superb wildlife...

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