Fox’s arrival into Sedbergh
In this video, Angus Winchester tells us a little more about Fox’s arrival into Sedbergh and what his welcome would have been like. Angus also tells us what he believes …
Course: Radical Spirituality: the Early History of the Quakers
Itinerance
Travel is obviously key to the story of George Fox. In this video, Hilary Hinds explains why, how typical this was for early Quakers, and also whether travel continued to …
Journal extract
We can look again at what Fox wrote about his travels by visiting the Lancaster University website exploring Quakerism in the Northwest. There are four pages here: The first starts …
Fox’s Journey
Fox’s route is shown on the map below – we do not know his exact route. He only first dictates a journal some ten years after the events of 1652 …
Introduction to Week 2
Watch this short video, in which we will introduce the material to be covered this week. We will hear about Fox’s arrival in Sedbergh from Angus Winchester, Hilary Hinds will …
Summing up
It is wonderful to have so many people on the course and from so many different parts of the world. And it is wonderful to have such a rich mix …
Journal extract
Visit Lancaster University’s Quaker Project website to see the part of George Fox’s journal that relates to the part of his travels we have just covered. You can see an …
The Pendle Hill story
Watch this video to find out what happened to Fox after 1647, how he spent a year in jail in Derby in 1650, and how he then came north to …
The message of George Fox
In this video, Hilary Hinds summarises the religious ideas of George Fox as they develop before and after his experience in 1647, leading up to the events of 1652. We …
George Fox’s Transformation – Part 3
This video offers an overview of the text featured on the last two steps, bringing out five key aspects of George Fox’s thought and how that would shape the Quaker …
Introduction to George Fox
George Fox (1624 – 1690) from Leicestershire founded the Quaker movement. Watch this short video which describes Fox’s upbringing and early life prior to 1647 when he had a transforming …
What caused the English Civil War?
The English Civil War is the background into which Quakerism emerges. This is a tumultuous period in English social history and combined with harvest failures and food shortages, high levels …
Meet the team
Read about the course tutors and contributors and then tell us a bit about yourself. What is your background? Why have you enrolled on this course? What do you hope …
Introduction
Welcome to ‘Radical Spirituality: the early history of the Quakers’. This short video introduces the course. You are not required to have any knowledge of the Quakers and the course …
The civil war context
Watch this short video in which Dr Sarah Barbers talks about the rise of Quakerism in the context of the times.
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Radical Spirituality: the Early History of the Quakers