Eye - 25 September 2026

Eye unearths sexy history, hears about Friends finding new relevance, dips into the archive, and shares some ways to find out more about Friends for newcomers

by Elinor Smallman 25th September 2026

‘This is sexy history’

‘Today Quakers are remembered as peaceful and gentle, but when they first emerged… they were a wild and terrifying sect.’ So begins an episode of the After Dark: Myths, misdeeds and the paranormal podcast, where historian Erica Canela discusses her book: Zealous: A darker side of the early Quakers.