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- Bookshop Day – Henry Thomas Wake, Quaker bookseller
- Taking stock – the Library of the Society of Friends Special Collections Review
- A Flame in the City: The 1821 Gracechurch Street Fire and Its’ Impact on the Quaker Community
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- Uncovering the Past: Four London Quakers and their ties to slavery
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Taking stock – the Library of the Society of Friends Special Collections Review
At the Library of the Society of Friends we use the term “special collections” to refer to objects and framed art that are not held within an archive collection. This includes roughly 1,400 items and covers a wide range of … Continue reading
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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
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Tagged 20th-century, archives, family-history, genealogy, history, local-history
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Uncovering the Past: Four London Quakers and their ties to slavery
Quakers in Britain have committed to making practical reparations for the transatlantic slave trade. In November, as part of an event organised by London Quakers to explore what reparations might look like, the Library welcomed Friends into the reading room to … Continue reading
GF400: Evolution of George Fox’s image
George Fox (1624-1691) was born in Leicestershire and is one of the founding figures of Quakerism. Our Library & Archive collections hold many portraits of George Fox, most produced throughout the 19th and 20th centuries. None of the portraits can … Continue reading
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Tagged art, engravings, George Fox, Honthorst, portraits, Robert Spence, William Darton
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Creating a world without war: project completed
We are delighted to announce that we have completed the core work of the Wellcome Trust funded project to catalogue and preserve the records of the Friends Ambulance Unit (FAU) and Friends Relief Service (FRS) from World War Two. Both … Continue reading
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Building back better after times of crisis
Normally around this time of year we would be on a stall at the annual History Day run by the Institute of Historical Research at UCL, which gives researchers a chance to meet staff from libraries, archives, museums, and publishers, … Continue reading
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Creating a world without war cataloguing project begins
I joined Friends House Library in January 2020 as Project Archivist. Over the next 2 years I will be working on a Wellcome Trust Funded project to catalogue the World War Two archives of Friends Ambulance Unit (1939-47) and Friends … Continue reading
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Belsen remembered – working with the Holocaust Educational Trust
This year there are several anniversaries coming up, but some of the most poignant, and perhaps relevant in today’s world, are the 75th anniversaries of the liberation of Nazi concentration camps. These anniversaries remind us of the world’s horror in … Continue reading
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Respected Friend? Women and equality in the Society of Friends
Quaker women in history have a reputation for being bolder and more publicly visible than their contemporaries, being involved with preaching and publishing from the very beginning of the movement. Until the end of the 19th century, however, the members … Continue reading
Yearly Meeting 2019
Here in the Library, we are all recovering from a busy and productive Yearly Meeting in Friends House held over the bank holiday weekend. Yearly Meeting is the annual gathering for Quakers from around the country to come together to … Continue reading
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Quaker Strongrooms 