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William Penn’s “Excellent priviledge” (1687) on display in the British Library’s Magna Carta exhibition
Tract Volume 563 is a miscellaneous collection of pamphlets dating from the 1670s to the early 20th century, unassumingly bound in blue cloth. But among its contents is a pamphlet that includes the first printing of Magna Carta in America, … Continue reading
Posted in Exhibitions, News
Tagged anniversaries, exhibitions, Magna Carta, Pennsylvania, rare books, tract volumes, William Bradford, William Penn
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Friends Emergency and War Victims Relief Committee cataloguing project: relief and reconstruction during World War I and beyond
A 15 month project to catalogue the archives of the Friends Emergency and War Victims Relief Committee (FEWVRC) has now been completed, making accessible the records of an unprecedented Quaker relief effort during and after World War I. The project, … Continue reading
Posted in Projects
Tagged archives, cataloguing, France, Friends Emergency & War Victims Relief Committee, refugees, Russia, war relief, World War I
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Quaker Strongrooms blog at the turning of the year
It’s time to look back over the past 12 months on the Quaker Strongrooms blog and ahead to what 2015 may bring. Our posts were unusually focused on one topic over much of the year, reflecting the importance of marking the … Continue reading
Library resources for researching World War I: visual resources
For the past nine months our blog has been focusing on printed and archival resources for researching World War I and its aftermath. At last it’s the turn of the Library’s “visual resources” – ever-present in the blog and on … Continue reading
World War I images: photograph album of Alan Burtt, Friends Ambulance Unit SSA19
Readers of this blog will have noticed that we have been focusing intensively on the centenary of World War I. Alongside the usual wide range of research, one in five visits to the Library this year have been by readers … Continue reading
Posted in Highlights
Tagged archives, Friends Ambulance Unit (1914-1919), Philip Alan Burtt, visual resources, World War I
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Library resources for researching World War I: periodicals
Where would you look for news, reflections, debate or comment on World War I events as they unfolded? Contemporary magazines, newsletters and reports are a fruitful resource for researchers studying Quaker thought and activity during the war and its aftermath. … Continue reading
Library resources for researching World War I: peace pamphlets
It’s sometimes said that the richness of a library’s collection can be judged by the number and variety of its pamphlets. This Library has over a thousand boxes and volumes of pamphlets, which we aim to catalogue individually. Pamphlets have … Continue reading
White Feather Diaries
During the WWI centenary we helped create an online Quaker storytelling project to mark the experiences of conscientious objectors. It offered an insight into overlooked aspects of war: resistance to killing and the relief of suffering. As of 2022, the … Continue reading
Library resources for researching World War I: Wartime Statistics Committee
The Wartime Statistics Committee was established by Meeting for Sufferings in June 1917, a year after the introduction of conscription, to collect statistics on men of military age. Its records are of value for researchers interested in British Quakers and … Continue reading
Posted in Guides
Tagged archives, conscientious objection, conscription, statistics, Wartime Statistics Committee, World War I
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Library resources for researching World War I: Friends Ambulance Unit
The records of the Friends Ambulance Unit are the focus of this blog post, the latest in our series on resources for researching World War I. Established in the First World War and revived in the second, the Friends Ambulance … Continue reading
Posted in Guides
Tagged archives, Friends Ambulance Unit (1914-1919), manuscripts, personal papers, printed works, relief work, World War I
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