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Rusty staples and red rot: a student conservator reports. Part 2
Sibel Ergener, of West Dean College, continues her guest blogpost on voluntary conservation work she undertook at the Library this summer. The Library of the Society of Friends is a working library with researchers making heavy use of its collections. … Continue reading
Posted in Collection care, Guest posts
Tagged books, conservation, preservation, printed works
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Rusty staples and red rot: a student conservator reports. Part 1
We’re pleased to present the first of two guest blog posts from Sibel Ergener, a conservation student at West Dean, who recently spent a short but productive fortnight in the Library as a volunteer. Working on-site, with basic equipment, Sibel … Continue reading
Posted in Collection care, Guest posts
Tagged conservation, pamphlets, preservation, printed works
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A controversial cabinet
Sitting in the corner of the strongrooms is a wooden cabinet containing a collection of printed works known as as the “Braithwaite Collection”, gifted to the Library in 1907 under certain conditions. In his will Joseph Bevan Braithwaite (1818—1905) wrote: … Continue reading
Testing convictions: Harold Wild, a Manchester conscientious objector
What might a 19 year old pacifist think and feel under the threat of imminent military conscription? The papers of Harold Wild (1896-1979), recently received by the Library (MSS Acc. 11791), give us an insight into one young man’s experience. … Continue reading
Posted in New accessions
Tagged conscientious objection, Harold Wild Papers, personal papers, World War I
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Woodbridge Friends visit the Library
Anyone can access Quaker Strongrooms, the blog, but not everyone has access to the strongrooms at Friends House. However, from time to time, groups of Quakers from meetings around the country make their way to Friends House, London, for a … Continue reading
World War I and its aftermath: cataloguing the papers of Hilda Clark (1881-1955)
We’re pleased to present a guest blog post from Emma Hancox, who recently spent two weeks at the Library as part of her archives and records management training. As a student on the M.A. course in Archives and Records Management … Continue reading
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Tagged cataloguing, Hilda Clark Papers, manuscripts, personal papers, relief work, World War I
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Preservation news: some eighteenth century minute books
Years of use take their toll on books and manuscripts. Even with the most careful handling, moving documents from shelf to trolley, transporting them from the strongroom to the readers’ table or simply opening and closing volumes all put a strain … Continue reading
Posted in Collection care
Tagged archives, BeFriend a Book, conservation, Yearly Meeting
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Quaker sufferings records: an “embarras de richesse”
Readers of early Quaker literature cannot fail to be aware of the history of religious persecution of the Quakers in the seventeenth century. Although the Act of Toleration of 1689 marked the end of its most extreme forms, Quakers continued … Continue reading
Rachel Eveline Wilson papers and our new exhibition: an insight into the life of a World War I Friends Ambulance Unit nurse
An interesting recent addition to the Library’s collections has been the papers of Rachel Eveline Wilson (1894–1993) of Kidderminster, which primarily relate to her time in the Friends Ambulance Unit (FAU) as a nurse at Queen Alexandra Hospital, Malo–les–Bains, Dunkirk, … Continue reading
Posted in Exhibitions, New accessions, News
Tagged archives, costume, France, Friends Ambulance Unit (1914-1919), personal papers, relief work, war relief, World War I
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Attending Yearly Meeting: the unofficial record
The last weekend in May will see a transformation of Friends House, as Quakers from all over the country arrive for the annual assembly known as Yearly Meeting. Friends have gathered together yearly from 1688 onwards, and the records of … Continue reading
Quaker Strongrooms 