by Tim Leaman | Sep 22, 2022
Great Lives Editors: Elaine Phillips & Michael Sessions “An engineer and moth expert who journeyed across the United States with Mark Twain; a hero of the 1920 Olympics who went on to win a Nobel Peace Prize; and a pacifist who helped ensure Gandhi had a place at...
by Tim Leaman | Sep 22, 2022
Passion and Partings Author: Jane Mace Right from the start, ‘the people called Quakers’ recorded each other’s ‘dying sayings’. This book tells how, happening upon some of these by accident, a 21st century Friend learned of their speakers’ passion for equality and...
by Tim Leaman | Sep 22, 2022
I Love as I Find This fascinating exploration of one of the author’s Tudor ancestors takes us into many unexpected corners of national history, starting from John Perrot’s origins as a by-blow of Henry Vlll and including his service as Lord President of Munster in the...
by Tim Leaman | Sep 22, 2022
A Sermon on the Mount by Leonard Markham Once described by a cardinal as the most beautiful sanctuary in all England, the long abandoned and ruined Mount St Mary’s – the Famine Church – stands alone and isolated on a bluff above the River Aire in the Yorkshire city of...
