by Rebecca Houghton | Feb 24, 2025
Hidden from History Written by Elinor Kelly January 1916 was a turning point in British history. For the first time military service was made compulsory and men who did not volunteer to join the armed services were called to account in Military Service...
by Rebecca Houghton | Aug 25, 2023
All shall be well Written by Richard Essberger In 1938 Mary, a young Englishwoman in London, meets Josef, an anti-Nazi Austrian refugee who has escaped from Vienna to Prague. They fall in love. Josef, unknowingly, carries a deadly secret. In 1934, during the...
by Rebecca Houghton | Aug 16, 2023
Sundry Poems Written by Dr Mary Munro-Hill Dr Mary Munro-Hill is a Quaker and an Anglican (“Quanglican”) who has served as an Elder in the Pickering and Hull Monthly Meeting and as Quaker Chaplain and Anglican Reader at the University of Hull. She became a...
by Rebecca Houghton | Mar 21, 2023
A Friendly Word Written by Stephen Sayers and Illustrated by Swea Sayers “The book published by Quacks Books aims at explaining what it means to be a Quaker to young people over the age of about 7 years. The author, Stephen Sayers, and the illustrator,...
by Tim Leaman | Oct 11, 2022
Friends and Comrades How Quakers helped Russians to survive famine and epidemic by Sergei Nikitin (Author) A fascinating and deeply researched account of how the Quakers helped ordinary Russians through one of the grimmest times in their history. In an appallingly...
