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Library resources for researching World War I: Friends Ambulance Unit
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
Posted in Guides
Tagged archives, Friends Ambulance Unit (1914-1919), manuscripts, personal papers, printed works, relief work, World War I
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Library resources for researching World War I: Friends Peace Committee
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
Posted in Guides
Tagged archives, conscientious objection, Peace Committee, peace testimony, World War I
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Quakers, relief and rescue in 1930s and 1940s Europe: a collaborative microfilming project with the US Holocaust Memorial Museum
Since 2006 the Library has been involved in a collaborative microfilming project with the US Holocaust Memorial Museum (USHMM). The Museum, based in Washington DC, is the most comprehensive institution of its type in the world. Its primary mission is … Continue reading
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
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
Preservation news: some eighteenth century minute books
Years of use take their toll on books and manuscripts. Even with the most careful handling, moving documents from shelf to trolley, transporting them from the strongroom to the readers’ table or simply opening and closing volumes all put a strain … Continue reading
Posted in Collection care
Tagged archives, BeFriend a Book, conservation, Yearly Meeting
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Quaker sufferings records: an “embarras de richesse”
Readers of early Quaker literature cannot fail to be aware of the history of religious persecution of the Quakers in the seventeenth century. Although the Act of Toleration of 1689 marked the end of its most extreme forms, Quakers continued … Continue reading
Rachel Eveline Wilson papers and our new exhibition: an insight into the life of a World War I Friends Ambulance Unit nurse
An interesting recent addition to the Library’s collections has been the papers of Rachel Eveline Wilson (1894–1993) of Kidderminster, which primarily relate to her time in the Friends Ambulance Unit (FAU) as a nurse at Queen Alexandra Hospital, Malo–les–Bains, Dunkirk, … Continue reading
Posted in Exhibitions, New accessions, News
Tagged archives, costume, France, Friends Ambulance Unit (1914-1919), personal papers, relief work, war relief, World War I
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Quaker Strongrooms 