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New Rowntree biography
A new biography of the Victorian philanthropist, educationalist and social reformer Joseph Rowntree is to be published in the autumn.
Cadbury story on film
The conflicts faced by the Cadbury family of Birmingham in the first world war were featured in a half-hour film on BBC One West Midlands on 2 June.
Election success for Quakers
Two Quaker candidates have been successful at the recent European elections. Stroud Meeting’s Molly Scott Cato has become the first Green Party MEP for the South West, while Judith Kirton-Darling, who is a member of Belgium and Luxembourg Yearly Meeting and attends Hexham Meeting, was elected Labour MEP...
Meeting Houses Heritage Project launched
An exciting new heritage project was launched on 3 May at Hartington Grove Meeting House in Cambridge. Friends from Area Meetings across East Anglia heard about the The Quaker Meeting Houses Heritage Project, for which English Heritage is providing generous non-Lottery funding. The new project will provide Britain Yearly...
Sidcot students re-enact trial
History has been brought to life by students at Sidcot School in a dramatic re-enactment of the court martial of a prominent Quaker conscientious objector in world war one. At a special assembly, held to commemorate International Conscientious Objectors Day on 15 May, students were involved in the re-enactment of...
Brighthelm URC follows Quaker lead
A Brighton United Reformed church congregation has become the first in the UK to disinvest from fossil fuels. The decision by Brighthelm United Reformed Church ties in with one of the congregation’s core values, sustainability, according to its minister, Alex Mabbs.
New China Convoy exhibition
A new exhibition in Xi’an, Shaanxi Province, China tells the story of the Friends Ambulance Unit (FAU) China Convoy.
White Feather Diaries project launched
Friends from all over Britain converged on Friends House on 15 May to celebrate the launch of a major Quaker project. Quakers in Britain chose International Conscientious Objectors Day to introduce the four-year project to tell the suppressed stories of world war one: Cranks or heroes? Telling the untold stories...
Relatives remember COs
Conscientious Objectors (COs) of the first world war were remembered at a moving ceremony in Tavistock Square on 15 May, International Conscientious Objectors Day. Several hundred people gathered for a ceremony that included speeches, songs performed by the choir of a London school, the ‘naming of first world war conscientious...
‘Day to remember’ at Friends House
David Blake, head of library and archives of Friends House Library, described 15 May as a ‘day to remember’ when he introduced an event in the afternoon to launch two books on the history of conscientious objection in Britain.