Society of Friends

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

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...

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...

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 .

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.

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.

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

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

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...

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...

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.