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.

Margaret Fell, Letters, and the Making of Quakerism is the first book to connect the suffering experience with the communication network that drew the faithful together to create a new religious community.

This is a fascinating record of a small community living out its distinctive religious witness in the everyday, navigating internal and external pressures in a rapidly changing context.

Author Marlene Pedigo considers faithful women ministers, from the Bible through the history of Friends (Quakers) to her own experience. She considers the spiritual practices and development of a minister, various roles and tasks of ministry, ...

Author Jennifer Kavanagh, shares her moments of discovery while addressing themes of Russia, Jewishness, motherhood, music, home, and language, as well as the vagaries of memory.

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.

The editors and Quacks Books of York are pleased to announce the publication of a new book of retrospective essays about Bretton Hall College, Wakefield.

50 years at the heart of the community... records and celebrates the evolution of Cranleigh's Arts Centre from its creation in 1974 by a group of local societies needing more space, into today's successful community arts centre that is valued by all.