Author Archives: Library of the Society of Friends

Quaker Faith and Practice: the Quaker book of discipline from the “green dragon of the ancients” to the “red book”

Posted on 24/04/2018

At Yearly Meeting in 2018 Quakers in Britain will be considering whether to revise Quaker faith and practice – the book of discipline. This volume, found in every Quaker meeting and freely available online, is referred to for guidance on … Continue reading →

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Demystifying digitisation

Posted on 05/03/2018

In this blog post we want to tackle the big issue currently facing libraries, archives and museums: digitisation. It is something we are putting a lot of thought into here at Library of Society of Friends, and something we are … Continue reading →

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Conserving the Library’s tract volume collection

Posted on 31/01/2018

Our first Quaker Strongrooms blogpost of 2018 is from Ian Watson of Sussex Conservation Consortium, who’s been conserving some of the Library’s “tract volumes”. These are 650 bound volumes of 17th-19th century pamphlets (sometimes grandly described as Sammelbands) – one … Continue reading →

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A year in view: Quaker Strongrooms blog 2017

Posted on 30/12/2017

As the New Year approaches, here’s a quick look back at some Quaker Strongrooms blog highlights of 2017. The most popular post was Quaker women: resources for women’s history in the Library of the Society of Friends, published in March … Continue reading →

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Quakers and the Nobel Peace Prize – 70 year anniversary

Posted on 11/12/2017

  Yesterday marked the the 70th anniversary of the award of the Nobel Peace Prize to Friends Service Council and American Friends Service Committee, representing British and Americans Quakers more widely.   The anniversary feels all the more special this … Continue reading →

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“In turbulent times”: sources on local Quakers and their meetings over the centuries

Posted on 05/10/2017

For Quaker Week 2017, our head of Library & Archives, Libby Adams, travelled to Penrith Meeting to give a talk on local Quakers living through “turbulent times” (this year’s Quaker Week theme). This blog post concentrates on Quaker stories from … Continue reading →

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From cupola, portico or archway: Quaker school magazines

Posted on 04/09/2017

We’ve touched on children’s magazines in a previous blog post about Quaker missionary periodicals. Another kind of publication concerning young people is the school magazine. Quaker schools generated a variety of these, some written by teachers, others by pupils, some … Continue reading →

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