Quaker history and biography

This is a revised edition of the standard introduction to Quaker history.

Though Fox's own Journal tells his life-story fully and vividly, some readers find it so detailed, and so quick to assume his reader's familiarity with situations, events and outlooks of his time that it is difficult to read or grasp it as a whole.

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

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.