Quaker history and biography

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 ...

Sarah Biller spent a turbulent childhood as the daughter of Alexander Kilham, Methodist rebel and founder of a breakaway church.

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

Ryan P. Jordan explores the limits of religious dissent in antebellum America, and reminds us of the difficulties facing reformers who tried peacefully to end slavery.