Manchester's 'Female Christ' whose radical ideas were too much for her time

In 1774, Lee – now also known as 'Mother Ann' – and a small group of followers sailed from Liverpool to start a Shaker church ...

The Testament of Ann Lee review – Amanda Seyfried is (maybe) the second coming of Christ in this extraordinary biopic

This thrillingly iconoclastic musical – from the makers of ‘The Brutalist’ – tells the story of the leading prophet of the 18th-century Shaker movement, who preached celibacy, rejected conformity ...