Tag Archives: Friends Service Council

150 years of Friends and foreign missions

Posted on 08/06/2018 by Library of the Society of Friends

    26th May 2018 marked the 150th anniversary of the establishment of the Friends Foreign Mission Association in 1868. This put overseas mission and relief work on a permanent footing for the Society for the first time, and this … Continue reading →

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Friends as missionaries: contemporary reports, newsletters and magazines

Posted on 31/08/2016 by Library of the Society of Friends

This blog post introduces some of the periodicals that document British Quakers’ activity in the foreign mission field from the second half of the nineteenth to the mid-twentieth century. Mission work was reported and promoted through annual reports, newsletters, and circulars. These … Continue reading →

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Quakers, relief and rescue in 1930s and 1940s Europe: a collaborative microfilming project with the US Holocaust Memorial Museum

Posted on 02/10/2013 by Library of the Society of Friends

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 →

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