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A life of Quaker service in England and Germany from World War I to II: cataloguing the papers of Dorothy Henkel (1886-1983)
We’re pleased to present a guest blog post from Hannah Ratford, who recently spent two weeks at the Library as part of her archives and records management training. As part of the M.A. course in Archives and Records Management at … Continue reading
Posted in Guest posts
Tagged cataloguing, Dorothy Henkel papers, manuscripts, personal papers, refugees, relief work, World War I
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A glimpse into the strongrooms
Way back in May 2012, commenting on the blog’s very first post, a reader asked “how about a picture of what the strongrooms look like today?” Perhaps rashly, we promised a peek. One year on, at last we have some … Continue reading
Commonplace books: collections of precious gems
Have you ever kept a scrapbook, jotted things of interest in a notebook, or clipped extracts from webpages? Then you have been “commonplacing”. For centuries, writers, philosophers, theologians, scholars, poets, artists and others have gathered together passages from prose, quotations, … Continue reading
Playing with shadows: silhouette portraits and how to make them
Silhouettes – solid profile images – have long been a popular form of portraiture, though the name itself only dates back a couple of hundred years. The side or profile view of a subject, whether on coins and medals or … Continue reading
The Macaroni Jester – an antidote to melancholy
To mark April Fool’s Day, we’re not going to spin a yarn about Quakers and kilts or how George Fox invented porridge while in jail. Instead, here’s part of the true tale of an 18th century joke book recently added … Continue reading
Football with the Foxes
Mention ‘Quakers’ to the average football fan and the response is likely to be something to do with Darlington. Darlington FC, founded in 1883, received its nickname because of the importance of Quakerism in the town, and its crest includes … Continue reading
The Ploughshare, voice of Quaker Socialism
The Ploughshare was a quarterly, later monthly, journal published by the Socialist Quaker Society (SQS) between 1912 and 1919. It was edited by William Loftus Hare (1868–1943) and Hubert W. Peet, (1886–1951), who was so committed to the journal and … Continue reading
Posted in Highlights
Tagged periodicals, Ploughshare, printed works, Socialist Quaker Society
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A little treasure trove for a Monday: some highlights from our latest display
Our latest display in the reading room is something of a salmagundi. We decided to pick out a selection of the items donated to the Library’s visual resources collection over the past twelve months, just to demonstrate the wide range … Continue reading
Posted in Exhibitions, New accessions
Tagged costume, objects, photographs, silhouettes, visual resources
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Goodbye to Volume H!
Some of the Library’s rarest printed items are ephemeral publications, pamphlets, broadsides and single sheet circulars, ranging from the 17th century to the present day. Their survival is unusual, and owes much to the way they have been stored, often … Continue reading
Posted in Collection care
Tagged BeFriend a Book, conservation, ephemera, pamphlets, rare books, slavery, tract volumes
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Quaker Strongrooms 