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How a teacup made its way home to tell a story of Quaker activism: working with the Faith Museum
by Melissa Atkinson For the last few years, I have had the privilege of being involved with a new museum project at Auckland Castle in Bishop Auckland, County Durham. This regeneration project encompassed renovating the castle and its grounds with … Continue reading
Some Library highlights of 2018
It’s time to take stock as the old year draws to a close. It’s been a full one. We said goodbye to old colleagues and welcomed new ones. Centenaries kept us busy. The reading room got a new look. Our … Continue reading
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Tagged conservation, exhibitions, manuscripts, printed works, visual resources, volunteers
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Conflicting Views: Pacifist Artists – the Otter Gallery loan
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
New images on display in the reading room: a quick tour
The Library reading room has had a make-over. Around the walls you’ll see a series of large panels displaying images selected from different parts of the collections. They give some insight into the breadth of material held by the Library, … Continue reading
Quakers say it loud: the poster collection of the Library of the Society of Friends
The Library’s latest reading room display focuses on our poster collection. The posters are a historic visual record of Quaker values. These values – or ‘testimonies’ – of peace, equality, simplicity and sustainability, and truth and integrity are the founding principles of … Continue reading
Library resources for researching World War I: visual resources
For the past nine months our blog has been focusing on printed and archival resources for researching World War I and its aftermath. At last it’s the turn of the Library’s “visual resources” – ever-present in the blog and on … Continue reading
World War I images: photograph album of Alan Burtt, Friends Ambulance Unit SSA19
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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Tagged archives, Friends Ambulance Unit (1914-1919), Philip Alan Burtt, visual resources, World War I
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Artists inspired by worship
Linda Murgatroyd of the Quaker Arts Network writes about a selection of images of Quaker worship that she researched for the 2014 Quaker Arts Network calendar, Inspired by worship My recent researches in the Library for visual representations of Quaker … Continue reading
Playing with shadows: silhouette portraits and how to make them
Silhouettes – solid profile images – have long been a popular form of portraiture, though the name itself only dates back a couple of hundred years. The side or profile view of a subject, whether on coins and medals or … Continue reading
The Macaroni Jester – an antidote to melancholy
To mark April Fool’s Day, we’re not going to spin a yarn about Quakers and kilts or how George Fox invented porridge while in jail. Instead, here’s part of the true tale of an 18th century joke book recently added … Continue reading
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