For the hunchbacked Quaker was not a product of the 1960s counter-culture but of the Essex textile industry of the early 18th Century. The BBC charts the achievements of an extraordinary man ...

A descendant of English Quakers who freed the people they had enslaved to abide by the Society of Friends’ 1776 decision to abolish the practice, Nicholson lived his convictions. He attended sit ...

The prominent role that Quakers played in calling and attending the 1848 Seneca Falls meeting on women’s rights is an example of the importance of members of the Religious Society of Friends in ...

Horace Alexander (1889-1989) was one of a group of English Quakers closely associated with Mahatma Gandhi. This is an extract from an account written by Horace Alexander in 1983 of how he spent ...

Quakers have a long history of working in prisons going back to English Quaker Elizabeth Fry who worked with prison reform in the 1800s. Lamm stated that the Alternatives to Violence program was ...