Tag Archives: personal papers

Quaker women: resources for women’s history in the Library of the Society of Friends

Posted on 01/03/2017 by Library of the Society of Friends

For Women’s History Month this March, we offer a broad overview of some of the great women’s history resources the Library has to offer. Whether you’re interested in the lives and thought of particular Quaker women, in the history of … Continue reading →

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Celebrating more collections information online

Posted on 03/05/2016 by Library of the Society of Friends

Every archive is faced with the problem of growing backlogs of material waiting to be added to their online catalogues and made accessible for users. It is a skilled and time consuming task to update old catalogue entries in paper format to digital … Continue reading →

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Opening up the manuscript collections: an update on our online cataloguing project

Posted on 23/07/2015 by Library of the Society of Friends

What do silhouettes, the  South Sea journals of Daniel Wheeler, press-cuttings on the General Strike, and a 100 year-old phial of anti-tetanus serum have in common? They’re all to be found in the Library’s main manuscript series, which currently comprises over … 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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Library resources for researching World War I: prison experiences of conscientious objectors

Posted on 30/04/2014 by Library of the Society of Friends

Most of the men who found themselves imprisoned for conscientious objection during World War I were characterised as absolutist objectors. These men were not willing to participate in the war effort to any extent, turning down non-combatant duties and alternative … Continue reading →

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A life of Quaker service in England and Germany from World War I to II: cataloguing the papers of Dorothy Henkel (1886-1983)

Posted on 10/06/2013 by Library of the Society of Friends

We’re pleased to present a guest blog post from Hannah Ratford, who recently spent two weeks at the Library as part of her archives and records management training. As part of the M.A. course in Archives and Records Management at … Continue reading →

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Commonplace books: collections of precious gems

Posted on 29/04/2013 by Library of the Society of Friends

Have you ever kept a scrapbook, jotted things of interest in a notebook, or clipped extracts from webpages? Then you have been “commonplacing”. For centuries, writers, philosophers, theologians, scholars, poets, artists and others have gathered together passages from prose, quotations, … Continue reading →

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Conservation of Elizabeth Fry’s diaries

Posted on 15/10/2012 by Library of the Society of Friends

One of the most well-known Quakers is the 19th century philanthropist and friend of prisoners, Elizabeth Fry (1780–1845). Nearly all her diaries, covering most of her extremely busy life (spanning the years 1797 to 1845) are held by the Library. … Continue reading →

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Testing convictions: Harold Wild, a Manchester conscientious objector

Posted on 30/07/2012 by Library of the Society of Friends

What might a 19 year old pacifist think and feel under the threat of imminent military conscription? The papers of Harold Wild (1896-1979), recently received by the Library (MSS Acc. 11791), give us an insight into one young man’s experience. … Continue reading →

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World War I and its aftermath: cataloguing the papers of Hilda Clark (1881-1955)

Posted on 03/07/2012 by Library of the Society of Friends

We’re pleased to present a guest blog post from Emma Hancox, who recently spent two weeks at the Library as part of her archives and records management training. As a student on the M.A. course in Archives and Records Management … Continue reading →

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