Records of Leeds Friends Tract Association. 1873-1924.
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Leeds Friends Tract Association.
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The Leeds Friends Tract Association was formed in 1854, for the purpose of distributing Christian tracts, such as those produced by the Friends Tract Associations in London and York. The city was divided into districts, each with a Friend responsible for maintaining a stock of tracts for loan or distribution. Tracts were also supplied to Friends Meetings and Adult Schools in Leeds and the West Riding. The Association was active until around 1889; in 1899, the work revived under a Tract Committee...
Society of Friends
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The Society of Friends (or 'Quakers') was formed by George Fox (1624-1691), a shoemaker from Nottingham. In the 1640s Fox travelled throughout England delivering sermons in which he argued that individuals could have direct access to God without the need for churches, priests or other aspects of the established Church. Fox's followers became known as the 'Friends of Truth' and later the 'Society of Friends'. Fox developed rules for the management of meetings, which were printed as 'Friends Fello...
