The world of Joseph Wood

Pamela Cooksey considers a fascinating Quaker archive

by Pamela Cooksey 21st October 2011

The publication this month of a full and unedited transcription of the large and small notebooks of Joseph Wood, a Yorkshire Quaker, will provide a significant new resource for those with an interest in Quaker history and genealogy.

The hundred notebooks, written between 1773 and 1821, together with 647 letters and miscellaneous printed Quaker papers, are now known as the Joseph Wood Archive. The archive, kept in the Wood family for over six generations, offers a revealing portrait of a Quaker and his time.