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T. Edmund Harvey
Liberal Ascendant
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Mark Frankel
Language:
English
Published/Copyright:
2025
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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.
Author / Editor information
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.
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eBook published on:
September 29, 2025
eBook ISBN:
9789004748088
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Front matter:
8
Main content:
96
eBook ISBN:
9789004748088
Keywords for this book
colonialism; conscientious objection; Quaker Renaissance; pacifism; liberalism
Audience(s) for this book
Students and general readers of Quakers and Quakerism, peace studies and British political and colonial history.
