Tag Archives: periodicals

From cupola, portico or archway: Quaker school magazines

Posted on 04/09/2017 by Library of the Society of Friends

We’ve touched on children’s magazines in a previous blog post about Quaker missionary periodicals. Another kind of publication concerning young people is the school magazine. Quaker schools generated a variety of these, some written by teachers, others by pupils, some … 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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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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The Ploughshare, voice of Quaker Socialism

Posted on 04/03/2013 by Library of the Society of Friends

The Ploughshare was a quarterly, later monthly, journal published by the Socialist Quaker Society (SQS) between 1912 and 1919. It was edited by William Loftus Hare (1868–1943) and Hubert W. Peet, (1886–1951), who was so committed to the journal and … Continue reading →

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Catherine Impey of Street, Somerset, and her radical anti-racist newspaper

Posted on 18/09/2012 by Library of the Society of Friends

Between 1888 and 1895, Catherine Impey (1847–1923) of Street, Somerset, wrote and published what is credited as being Britain’s first anti-racist periodical. Anti-Caste, as it was called, is one of the most remarkable serials in our collection: the Library holds … Continue reading →

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