Society of Friends

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...

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.

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...

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...

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.

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

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

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...

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...

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 .

During this same winter she was urging fellow-Quakers to strike an informal committee that could publicise her concerns about Africa: the result was a Committee for African Instruction .

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.

During her interval of time in England in 1828-30, HK spoke to meetings of Friends about her anti-slavery concerns. Disregarding difference of faith, she quoted Hannah More in these talks.

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