Quaker history and biography

Kathleen Lonsdale was a groundbreaking chemist who was instrumental in developing the science of crystallography. She was also a midlife convert to Quakerism who campaigned for peace and prison reform.

A humble tailor and apple-grower from New Jersey, John Woolman became one of the leading voices against the transatlantic slave trade in the eighteenth century.

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One cousin is notorious: Alice Paul endures censure and prison to win suffrage for women. She’s a political powerhouse who organizes the first women’s march on Washington and the first pickets in front of the White House.

The Fearless Benjamin Lay chronicles the transatlantic life and times of a singular and astonishing man-a Quaker dwarf who became one of the first ever to demand the total, unconditional emancipation of all enslaved Africans around the world.

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

'Black Fire' gathers together the voices of 18 remarkable individuals who spoke and wrote as African Americans from within the Quaker community.

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