Region, gender and family, print culture, and radical puritanism: a conversation between Stephen Angell and Euan McArthur

Reflecting on two research notes in this edition of Quaker Studies, this conversation piece considers the commonalities between them and what they tell us about the direction of future research. The content of each note concerns Quakerism in a local context – examining specific civic, parochial, and educational debates in the East of England – suggesting a need to write Quaker history in a plural fashion. Both authors equally reflect, however, on the migration of disputes across regional and even national boundaries, as well as the insights close readings of texts can give us into their dispersion and the theological and practical relations between denominational groups. Looking forward, both authors affirm the need for a continued attendance to these topics, in addition to the representation of female agency as an authorial and inscribed presence.