Tag Archives: archives

Quaker Faith and Practice: the Quaker book of discipline from the “green dragon of the ancients” to the “red book”

Posted on 24/04/2018 by Library of the Society of Friends

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 →

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“In turbulent times”: sources on local Quakers and their meetings over the centuries

Posted on 05/10/2017 by Library of the Society of Friends

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 →

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Quaker women: resources for women’s history in the Library of the Society of Friends

Posted on 01/03/2017 by 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 →

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Celebrating more collections information online

Posted on 03/05/2016 by Library of the Society of Friends

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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The life of a photograph and an extraordinary woman

Posted on 18/09/2015 by Library of the Society of Friends

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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Friends Emergency and War Victims Relief Committee cataloguing project: relief and reconstruction during World War I and beyond

Posted on 26/01/2015 by Library of the Society of Friends

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 →

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World War I images: photograph album of Alan Burtt, Friends Ambulance Unit SSA19

Posted on 29/10/2014 by Library of the Society of Friends

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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Library resources for researching World War I: Wartime Statistics Committee

Posted on 30/06/2014 by Library of the Society of Friends

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 →

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Library resources for researching World War I: Friends Ambulance Unit

Posted on 22/05/2014 by Library of the Society of Friends

The records of the Friends Ambulance Unit are the focus of this blog post, the latest in our series on resources for researching World War I. Established in the First World War and revived in the second, the Friends Ambulance … Continue reading →

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Library resources for researching World War I: Friends Peace Committee

Posted on 17/03/2014 by Library of the Society of Friends

The first of our World War I resources blogposts focuses on the Friends Peace Committee, a committee of Meeting for Sufferings (the standing representative body of Quakers in Britain) that had already been in existence for many years before the … Continue reading →

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