Canterbury Commitment
The Canterbury Commitment is Quakers In Britain pledge of becoming a low carbon organisation.
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Quakers Through The Ages
Public Universalist Friend
Rejecting a male or female identity, the Public Universalist Friend (PUF) was one of America’s first non binary preachers.
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Quakers And The Slave Trade
Quakers have a long history of campaigning against the Slave Trade but, to begin with, several Friends did own slaves.
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Why And How Were The Quakers Persecuted?
From their beginnings in the mid 17th century, Quakers faced persecution for their faith – this is why and how.
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The Church Of England’s Garden of Nonconformist Weeds
The Church of England was designed to orderly control state religion, but its garden soon became full of Nonconformist weeds.
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Crownstone Along The Mason–Dixon line
The Mason-Dixon line, marked with crownstones, was surveyed by Quaker Jeremiah Dixon (1733 – 1799) and his partner Charles Mason.
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William Penn’s Idea Of A European Parliament
The idea of a European Parliament was first pioneered, in 1693, by the Quaker William Penn.
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