British Quakers: Mission and message - Early Friends

Stuart Masters and Simon Best begin a new eight-part series on Quakerism. In this article Stuart writes about early Friends and the Quaker message

by Stuart Masters and Simon Best 4th October 2013

During the 1650s the new and emerging Quaker movement launched one of the most vigorous and widespread evangelical missions in the history of Christianity.  Within a few years a preaching campaign, led by a group of itinerant Quaker ministers and preachers, left no part of Great Britain and Ireland untouched. It swept across continental Europe, to Turkey and Palestine, and across the oceans to Barbados and the American colonies.