Society of Friends

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.

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...

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...

Her religious witness had, owing to the persecution of Quakers , its political side. She was clearly a persuasive speaker, as shown by her success with the Mayors of Basingstoke and of Marlborough. She also...

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

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)...

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...

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.

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 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...

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

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