Quaker history and biography

In 1651 William heard Goerge Fox preach at Synderhill Green, near Balby in South Yorksjire. This came as a light in his spiritual darknessand and within a year William was joining the courageous group of early Quaker itinerant preachers.

William Godwin William Godwin was the first major anarchist thinker in the Anglophone world, who rocked the establishment at the beginning of the nineteenth century.

William Penn (1644-1718) was the English Quaker who founded Pennsylvania. He left a greater mark on British North America than any other single individual in the colonial era. Voltaire described him as sovereign of his colony. This new Profile in

Short biography of William Penn by Elaine Miles.

In the first major biography of Penn in over 40 years, Andrew Murphy examines his prominent public career as a Quaker spokesman, political agitator and royal courtier.