The Shakers emerged out of a Quaker sect in 18th-century Manchester (England, not New Hampshire). The founder, Ann Lee, was an illiterate factory worker and hospital cook who bore and lost four ...

Founded in the 18th century by Ann Lee, the Shakers emphasised radical beliefs in gender equality, pacifism, communal living, ...

Within a year, Zaddock was freed from the prison and returned to his family, as Ann Lee predicted. He joined the Shakers and “continued faithfully to the end of his days.” One afternoon I was ...

The film, inspired by real events, is described to us as “an epic fable” about religious leader Ann Lee, the founding leader of the Shaker Movement, who was proclaimed by her followers as the ...