Britain Yearly Meeting 2015: Faith and action
Stories about faith in action during the first world war were one of the highlights at Britain Yearly Meeting
Find work that wants doing; take it; regularise it later if you can
Friends Ambulance Unit motto
One of the highlights of Yearly Meeting for some Friends was the presidential address by Betty Hagglund to the Friends Historical Society on Sunday 3 May. It featured archival material from the ‘Faith & Action: Quakers & the First World War’ exhibition currently on display in Birmingham.
The exhibition, which explores Quaker humanitarian, medical and relief work in Britain and Europe, as well as the dilemmas facing Friends, includes art such as ‘La Patrie’ by Christopher R W Nevinson. The painting depicts the scene that met the first Friends Ambulance Unit volunteers when they began tending wounded men left in train sheds.
You need to login to read subscriber-only content and/or comment on articles.