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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …