Quaker history and biography

Peter Cullimore, author of Saints, Crooks & Slavers tells the remarkable story of the dissenting doctors of Georgian Bristol.

This is a revised edition of the standard introduction to Quaker history.

William Penn’s classic 1696 work, Primitive Christianity Revived, describes how the ways of the early Christian church as established by Jesus and his apostles had been restored “in the Faith and Practice of the People called Quakers.”

In 1777, Congress labeled Quakers who would not take up arms in support of the War of Independence as "the most Dangerous Enemies America knows" and ordered Pennsylvania and Delaware to apprehend them.

An area in the South of what is now Cumbria is known as "1652 Country" because this is where George Fox won many followers to his vision of what he saw as the pure and genuine principles of Christianity in their original simplicity.