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by Mary Ellen Chijioke and Patricia A. Silva Within a wide range of new works related to Quaker history, two are general introductions that can open the way to further study. Harvey Gillman's pamphlet, A Light That Is Shining: An Introduction to the Quakers (London: Quaker Home Service, 1997) includes a brief but very helpful introduction to Quaker history for new attenders. The Religious Education Committee of Friends General Conference has produced Quakers on the Move: A Storybook of Quaker History from 1652 to Today (Philadelphia: Friends General Conference, 1996), aimed at younger readers. H. Larry Ingle's Friends Historical Society Presidential Lecture delivered at Britain Yearly Meeting in 1997, "The Future of Quaker History" (Journal ofthe Friends Historical Society, 58.1(1 997): 1-16) examines the state of Quaker historiography. Ingle lists several areas of research needing attention, including: more good local histories; biographies of Margaret Fell Fox, William Penn, George Whitehead, the Peningtons, Richard Hubberthorne, Edward Burroughs, and those who "ran out"; institutional histories, including the origins of the Meeting for Sufferings, the Second Day Meeting, and the Meeting of 1 2; the subtler issues of gender relationships, marriage, family, and Quakers and Blacks; numerous topics in the nineteenth
Quaker History – Friends Historical Association
Published: Apr 4, 1998
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