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Category Archives: Highlights
The life of a photograph and an extraordinary woman
The Library’s Visual Resources Development Officer, Melissa Atkinson, talks about one enduring image in our collection. I am fascinated with historical material culture and how it translates into modern society. When a researcher in the Library is interested in any … Continue reading
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Tagged Anne Knight, Anti-slavery, archives, Feminism, photographs, United Nations, Universal suffrage
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Friends and Armenian relief
April 24 is commemorated as the official anniversary of the Armenian genocide, which began in April 1915 with the round-up of Armenian intellectuals, followed by massacres and forced exile of hundreds of thousands of Armenian people from Turkey. Quakers at … 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
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Tagged archives, Friends Ambulance Unit (1914-1919), Philip Alan Burtt, visual resources, World War I
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Horses – bits and bots: the writings of Bracy Clark, F.L.S.
It’s the Chinese Year of the Horse – not much Quaker material there you might well think. If you were researching horses and equine veterinary practice, our Library would hardly be your first port of call. You might – perhaps … Continue reading
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Tagged Bracy Clark, horses, printed works, rare books, Retrospective Cataloguing Project
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Chinese translations
Work to add all the Library’s printed materials to our online catalogue continues, reaching into some less visited corners of the collections. In the angle of the reading room gallery sits a collection of Quaker texts translated into foreign languages … Continue reading
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Tagged China, Isaac mason, missions, printed works, Retrospective Cataloguing Project
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Howzat: some cricketing Quakers
While summer and the cricket season are still in full swing, you may enjoy some of these photographs from the records of the Falcon Touring Club, a Quaker cricket team. Dating back to 1902, the club drew its members mainly … 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
Quaker Strongrooms 