Tag Archives: missions

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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Chinese translations

Posted on 01/11/2013 by Library of the Society of Friends

Work to add all the Library’s printed materials to our online catalogue continues, reaching into some less visited corners of the collections. In the angle of the reading room gallery sits a collection of Quaker texts translated into foreign languages … Continue reading →

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Readers’ stories: researching Quaker missionaries in China

Posted on 01/10/2012 by Library of the Society of Friends

So far on the blog we’ve focused on what’s in the Library’s collections and work that’s being done to make them available.  There’s another story to tell – who uses the Library and why. Here’s a guest post from one … Continue reading →

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