Society of Friends

The reception in Izmir of MF and her associates shows that Quakers were as unacceptable to the English establishment abroad as at home. Her celebrated audience with Mehmet IV was reported in print a few...

EH was imprisoned in Lincoln for behaving as a Quaker minister.

George Fox later reported meeting HB in the Strand in London in about 1657, at a time when Cromwell was persecuting Quakers . She told him of her plan to seek out the future Charles II

With varying degrees of commitment (usually minor), Richardson immersed herself in various philosophical movements of the period. She did much of her reading at the British Museum 's Reading Room, which she revered, but elsewhere...

By this stage in her life she had been imprisoned fourteen times over a period of fifty years. The Society of Friends gave her permission for her journey. Once abroad, she first visited James II

Mary Southworth , now in her early thirties, wrote the news to her cousin Frances that she was imprisoned with many others in Lancaster Castle for attending a Quaker meeting and refusing to swear the...

AB also wanted to help after witnessing the appalling conditions in which 90,000 refugee ex-soldiers of the Spanish Republican Army were corralled behind barbed wire on an unsheltered beach in southern France, succumbing to pneumonia...

MM , at the palace of the Bishop of Chester and Lancaster, debated with Bishop Nicholas Stratford and other ecclesiastics on the legality, or rather the scripture authority for, compulsory payment of tithes to the...

MF set to work to establish the Kendal Fund to help support travelling Quaker ministers and their families; she enlisted the help of locals George Taylor or Tayler and Thomas Willan .

MF , on her first visit to London, presented the earliest formal Quaker peace testimony to Charles II , whom she went on to visit several times more.

Arrested in her turn at Holker, MF was imprisoned in Lancaster Castle for her Quaker activism.

During the second half of her life, from 1898, MK gave up writing fiction to focus on social reform, a shift that culminated in the appearance of How the Labourer Lives in 1913. In...

Soon after joining the Society of Friends , MF was sentenced to sixteen months of imprisonment in York Castle for her obstreperous activism.

When England declared war on Germany in August 1914, IOF , whose pacificism was ingrained from her Quaker upbringing, turned her focus to advocating for peace.

KEI became a member of the Society of Friends ' Slavery and Protection of Native Races Committee; she remained a member until 1937.