Society of Friends

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

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...

A conference on slavery organized by KEI for the Society of Friends ' Slavery and Protection of Native Races Committee was held at Friends' House , London.

Under the Commonwealth, AA was imprisoned at Bishop Auckland in County Durham for her Quaker preaching.

As persecution against dissenters increased, AD took on the project of combating this trend in print. For some years at the turn of the century (when she already thought of herself as an old woman)...

In organising the Fund she was interested in promoting social cohesion among Quakers as well as relieving hardship.George Fox continued to frequent Swarthmoor, and at the time of the Restoration (May 1660) was...

ES attended the second congress of the International Committee of Women for Permanent Peace , which was held at Zurich on 12-17 May 1919 (and which gave the organization its lasting name of Women's International League for Peace and Freedom

In the same year that she became a QuakerHK gave up using produce grown by slaves: that is, she joined the sugar boycott which was gathering strength among women.

HK wrote in her diary: Are not Friends peculiarly called upon to act as school missionaries?—that is to work for African education.

Both kept up their political activity during the 1930s with active membership of such organizations as the National Council for Civil Liberties (whose first executive committee Sharp sat on) and of PEN International . Even...

HB was arrested again at a Quaker meeting, probably following the Act of Uniformity.

They got up at 3 a.m. and walked three miles to Bonsall, to canvass local gentlemen against this sporting event. They bought the bull after failing to persuade the gentlemen. Two years later they went...

DW spent a large part of the years 1662-1663 in various London prisons for the offence of Quaker preaching, which the Act of Uniformity of May 1662 had pronounced to be illegal.

Meanwhile the attitude of the Puritan government of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts hardened against the Society of Friends , so that in opting for serious Quakerism BB would be joining a persecuted minority.

In Boston the two women at once fell under suspicion of being witches. They were searched for bodily marks of witchcraft (even betwixt their toes, and amongst their hair), then thrown into jail. Their...