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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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Quaker Faith and Practice: the Quaker book of discipline from the “green dragon of the ancients” to the “red book”
At Yearly Meeting in 2018 Quakers in Britain will be considering whether to revise Quaker faith and practice – the book of discipline. This volume, found in every Quaker meeting and freely available online, is referred to for guidance on … Continue reading
“In turbulent times”: sources on local Quakers and their meetings over the centuries
For Quaker Week 2017, our head of Library & Archives, Libby Adams, travelled to Penrith Meeting to give a talk on local Quakers living through “turbulent times” (this year’s Quaker Week theme). This blog post concentrates on Quaker stories from … Continue reading
Quaker women: resources for women’s history in the Library of the Society of Friends
For Women’s History Month this March, we offer a broad overview of some of the great women’s history resources the Library has to offer. Whether you’re interested in the lives and thought of particular Quaker women, in the history 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
Posted in Projects
Tagged Aline Atherton-Smith, archives, cataloguing, Lucy Backhouse, manuscripts, Mauricle Hussey, personal papers
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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
Posted in Highlights
Tagged Anne Knight, Anti-slavery, archives, Feminism, photographs, United Nations, Universal suffrage
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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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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: 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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Quaker Strongrooms 