On this day, June 1, in 1660, American colonist Mary Dyer was hanged in Boston for violating Massachusetts Bay Colony law by preaching Quakerism. Dyer was among a short list of outspoken women in the ...

Still waters are said to run deep. To the uninformed eye, there might appear to be nothing happening at a Quaker meeting. Come Sunday morning, in pre-pandemic times, members and attenders of Colorado ...

LIBRARIANS, COLLECTORS and preservers of the written word since Aristotle have their own obsessions, even as they serve ours-papyrus scrolls, 18th-century pleasure parks, penny dreadfuls. The list is ...

Disembarking at Boston in 1656, Mary Fisher, “a religious maiden,” and her companion Ann Austin, Quakers, were welcomed by hangman, by gaoler. The hangman made a public bonfire of all books found in ...

Quakers originated as a religious movement founded by George Fox in the mid-17th century, during the aftermath of the English ...