Tag Archives: France

The French Revolution: Quakers and cockades

Posted on 15/06/2015 by Library of the Society of Friends

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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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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Rachel Eveline Wilson papers and our new exhibition: an insight into the life of a World War I Friends Ambulance Unit nurse

Posted on 25/05/2012 by Library of the Society of Friends

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 →

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