Craftsman and Quaker: The Story of James T. Baily, 1876-1957

First published in 1959, Craftsman and Quaker is the story of one man’s life told against a background of the profound social changes of eighty years. Leslie Baily, well-known for his ‘Scrapbook’ and other historical radio programmes, extracted material from his father’s diaries and letters and presented it as a very human story through this book.

James T. Baily began life in humble circumstances in Sheffield, where his own father was a carpenter and joiner. Through many changes of circumsta...