T. Edmund Harvey - Brill Research Perspectives in Humanities and Social Sciences by Mark Frankel Paperback

About the Book

This book is the first full-length study of a unique figure in British and Quaker history whose career and integrity illuminates peace and war, religion and politics in the first half of the twentieth century

Book Synopsis

T. Edmund Harvey (1875-1955) is a unique figure, a Quaker who was a member of the British parliament in both world wars. He began as a Liberal Radical MP under Asquith and ended as an Independent Progressive in Churchill's wartime Parliament. He was a child of the Quaker Renaissance, a post-Victorian Christian gentleman whose religious and political life coincided with the era in Quaker history of 'liberalism ascendant', an era he helped shape. Harvey's career evinces a fourfold typology of British Quakers, as liberals, socialists, anarchists and experientialists.

About the Author

Mark Stanley Frankel is a independent scholar of Quaker studies from New Malden UK. In 2023 he completed a Ph.D., 'T. Edmund Harvey (1875-1955): liberal Quaker, Quaker liberal and politician of conscience' with the University of Birmingham UK.