Quaker history and biography

This detailed biography of Elizabeth Fry offers a comprehensive look at the life and accomplishments of one of England's most significant social reformers.

This biography of Elizabeth Fry is a high-interest, low-vocabulary book for adolescents and adults with limited literacy skills. Elizabeth Fry (1780-1845)Fry was a major driving force behind new legislation to make the treatment of prisoners...

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

Friends House, on Euston Road in London, was “…purpose-built as headquarters for the Society of Friends who had previously met at Devonshire House, an 18th century building in Houndsditch (now demolished).

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

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.

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

Friends in Deed is the inspiring and deeply human story of Quaker Service Australia, begun fifty years ago by a small group of people who wanted to help change the world, one step at a time.

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...

What was distinctive about the founding principles and practices of Quakerism? In George Fox and Early Quaker Culture

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.