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Margaret Fell was known for her influential early statements of Quaker principles, and for her arguments in defence of women’s preaching and leadership. She was imprisoned for several years in Lancaster for refusing to take the oath of allegiance and for allowing Quaker meetings for worship to be held in her home. This talk, from Professor Rachel Muers from the University of Edinburgh, draws on Margaret Fell’s life and work to explore themes of religious authority and leadership, power and protest, freedom of conscience and how her life and thought is still important today.

This lecture was filmed in Lancaster University’s Margaret Fell Lecture Theatre in June 2024.