Quaker history and biography

Quakers have been writing poetry about their extraordinary faith and way of life since the beginning of the Society of Friends, in the middle of the seventeenth century.

This small book tells the story, in his own words, of a man who came to the east end of London from St Lucia, in 1972. Xystus Sestus Marcel’s name refers to the book of Exodus, a reminder of enslaved people coming into emancipation.

Best known as the longest-serving editor of The Friend, Henry Stanley Newman was a true Victorian: energetic, outward-looking and civic-minded.

The Journal and Selected Writings of Sandre L. Cronk.

In the summer of 1813, as war with Britain intensified, President James Madison secretly dispatched an envoy to the Regency government of Spain with the urgent goal of thwarting a feared British bid to use Spanish Florida.

This book is the life-story of Sir Alfred Edward Pease (1857-1938),a restless and remarkable man.

This book is a commentary on Love to the Lost, a pamphlet published by the early Quaker James Nayler in February 1656.

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.

Adeline Mowbray, or the Mother and Daughter. New, illustr. Edition (followed by) the welcome home (and) the Quaker, and the young man of the world.

Record of Burials and Ashes including Alton Quakers buries elswhere.

Amelia opie's interesting life coud have been lived for the benefit of some future biographer. she was a best selling novelist, much in demand in the highest social circles a committed campaigner for the under privileged and anti slavery, a Quaker...

Autobiography. From the moment Judi Dench appeared as a teenager in the York Mystery Plays it was clear that acting would be her career.