Movement founded in the East Midlands by George Fox around 1647. It spread to the
north of England in the early 1650s and to the south by 1654.
Between 1655 & 1662 about 60 Quaker missionaries began converting settlers
in America, esp in New England (Rhode Island), New Amsterdam, Long Island, Maryland & Virginia.
In 1682 William penn's constitution for Pennsylvania was adopted.
There is no church as such but a gathering of friends at a meeting house where the workship
is largely silent. Social reform and religious tolerance are fundamental,
plus the pursuit of non-violent means

1900-1950
William C Braithwaite : The Beginnings of Quakerism (1912) (1961 Cambridge)
William C Braithwaite : The Second Period of Quakerism (1919) (1979 York)
Frederick B Tolles : Meeting House & Counting House - The Quaker Merchants of Colonial
Philadelphia 1692-1763 (1949 Chapel Hill)

1951-1970
A E Musson : Enterprise in Soap and Chemicals - Joseph Crosfield & Sons, Ltd 1815-1965
(1965 Manchester)
Arthur Raistrick : Quakers in Science & Industry (1968 NY)

1971-1980
T A B Corley : Quaker Enterprise in Biscuits - Huntley & Palmers of Reading 1822-1972
(1972 London)
Humphrey Lloyd : The Quaker Lloyds in the Industrial Revolution (1975 London)
George Barry Sutton : C & J Clark, 1833-1903 - A History of Shoemaking in Street, Somerset
(1979 York)

1981-1990
Edward H Milligan & Malcolm J Thomas : My Ancestors were Quakers - How Can I Find
out More About Them ? (1993 Society of Genealogists)
Kenneth H Southall : Our Quaker Heritage - Early Meeting Houses (1984 York)
M W Kirby : Men of Business and Politics - The Rise & Fall of the Quaker Pease
Dynasty of NE England 1700-1943 (1984 London)
(Ed) John L Nickalls : The Journal of George Fox (1986 Religious Society of Friends, London)
(Ed) Richard S Dunn & Mary Maples Dunn : The World of William Penn (1986 Philadelphia)
Gillian Wagner : The Chocolate Conscience (1987 London)
Ian Campbell Bradley : Evangelical Entrepreneurs (1987 London)
Arthur Raistrick : Dynasty of iron Founders (1989 London)
Geoffrey Tweedale : At the Sign of the Plough - 275 Years of Allen & Hanbury and the British
Pharmaceutical Industry 1715-1900 (1990 London)

1991-1995
John Punshon : Portrait in Grey - A Short History of the Quakers (1991 London)
David Scott : Quakerism in York 1650-1720 (1991 York)
Christine Trevett : Women and Quakerism in the 17thC (1991 York)
Richard T Vann & David Eversley : Friends in Life & Death - The British & Irish Quakers
and the Demographic Transition 1650-1990 (1992 Cambridge)
(Ed) Kenneth Morgan : An American Quaker in the British Isles - The Travel Journal
of Jabez Maud Fisher 1775-9 (1992 London)
Nicholas Morgan : Lancashire Quakers and the Establishment 1660-1730 (1993 Halifax)
H Larry Ingle : First Among Equals - George Fox and the Creation of Quakerism (1994 NY)
Quaker Faith & Practice : The Book of Christian Discipline of the Yearly Meeting of
the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers) in Britain (1995 London)
(Ed) Margaret Spufford : The World of Rural Dissenters 1520-1725 (1995 Cambridge)
Robert Fitzgerald : Rowntree and the Marketing Revolution 1862-1969 (1995 Cambridge)

After 1996
William Lamont : Puritanism and Historical Controversy (1996 London)
James Walvin : The Quakers - Money & Morals (1997 John Murray £22)