Quaker history and biography

Elizabeth Heyrick fought fiercely for the rights of oppressed people. After a disastrous marriage, she became a prolific pamphleteer, a Quaker and one of the most outspoken anti-slavery campaigners of her time

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 ...

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.

Records of Conscience: Three Autobiographical Narratives by Conscientious Objectors, 1665-1865