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- Bookshop Day – Henry Thomas Wake, Quaker bookseller
- Taking stock – the Library of the Society of Friends Special Collections Review
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A Flame in the City: The 1821 Gracechurch Street Fire and Its’ Impact on the Quaker Community
Abstract In September 1821, a catastrophic fire broke out on Gracechurch Street in London, destroying several commercial and residential buildings, including the prominent Quaker meeting house. This article revisits the fire through contemporary reports and explores its lasting effects on … Continue reading
Exploring the Committee Cupboards at the Library of the Society of Friends
The Quaker community emphasizes discernment and decision-making, with Britain Yearly Meeting’s central work overseen by committees. Archives at the Library of the Society of Friends hold significant committee minutes from 1660 to 2022. A recent inventory aims to enhance digital record-keeping, revealing the historical context of various essential committees and their contributions. Continue reading
Posted in Projects, Uncategorized
Tagged 20th-century, archives, family-history, genealogy, history, local-history
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Restore and renew: the Library refurbishment project
We took the decision in 2020 to try to use the closure of the Library of the Society of Friends due to the pandemic as a positive opportunity, and use the time to carry out some long overdue refurbishment work … Continue reading
Posted in Collection care, Projects
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A 17th century Recording Clerk’s library: Richard Richardson’s books
As part of the ongoing work to improve access to the Library’s printed books and pamphlets we have now added the Richardson Collection to our online catalogue. Unlike the other early books catalogued as part of the project, these books … Continue reading
War and social order
Reimagining a True Social Order is a new AHRC funded website exploring the historic background and contemporary significance of the Eight Foundations of a True Social Order, first agreed by London Yearly Meeting in 1918. Inspired by the richness of … Continue reading
Celebrating more collections information online
Every archive is faced with the problem of growing backlogs of material waiting to be added to their online catalogues and made accessible for users. It is a skilled and time consuming task to update old catalogue entries in paper format to digital … Continue reading
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Tagged Aline Atherton-Smith, archives, cataloguing, Lucy Backhouse, manuscripts, Mauricle Hussey, personal papers
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Opening up the manuscript collections: an update on our online cataloguing project
What do silhouettes, the South Sea journals of Daniel Wheeler, press-cuttings on the General Strike, and a 100 year-old phial of anti-tetanus serum have in common? They’re all to be found in the Library’s main manuscript series, which currently comprises over … Continue reading
The French Revolution: Quakers and cockades
When our project cataloguer came across a cockade (a type of ribbon rosette for wearing on a hat or pinned to a garment) from 1792 revolutionary France among the A. Ruth Fry papers (TEMP MSS 373), belonging to John Hodgkin … Continue reading
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Tagged cockades, conscientious objection, France, French Revolution, Jean de Marsillac, National Assembly, William Rotch
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Sole survivor? A Dutch broadside by an early 18th century woman Friend
A few weeks ago we were enthralled to discover that the Library holds what is possibly the sole surviving copy of an early 18th century broadside by a little known woman Friend, Margaret Langdale (1684?-1742). It’s an undated exhortation in … Continue reading
The Hawkins Collection: an early Quaker library, its provenance and some puzzles
We’ve recently finished cataloguing the contents of the Hawkins Collection – a remarkable private library bequeathed by Richard Hawkins (1649?-1735) to Westminster Monthly Meeting. The collection consists of 86 bound volumes containing over 1,200 individual publications – books, pamphlets and … Continue reading
Quaker Strongrooms 