Tag Archives: Friends Ambulance Unit (1914-1919)

Conflicting Views: Pacifist Artists – the Otter Gallery loan

Posted on 15/08/2018 by Library of the Society of Friends

Loaning material to other institutions provides an exciting opportunity to bring our collections to new audiences around the country. Special collections curator Melissa Atkinson writes about a current loan, and describes some of the objects on view. I was approached … 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: periodicals

Posted on 29/09/2014 by Library of the Society of Friends

Where would you look for news, reflections, debate or comment on World War I events as they unfolded? Contemporary magazines, newsletters and reports are a fruitful resource for researchers studying Quaker thought and activity during the war and its aftermath. … 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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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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