Library resources for researching World War I: Friends Ambulance Unit
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...
View ArticleLibrary resources for researching World War I: Wartime Statistics Committee
The Wartime Statistics Committee was established by Meeting for Sufferings in June 1917, a year after the introduction of conscription, to collect statistics on men of military age. Its records are of...
View ArticleWhite Feather Diaries
The white feather diaries is an online Quaker storytelling project to mark the centenary of World War I. It offers an insight into overlooked aspects of war: resistance to killing and the relief of...
View ArticleLibrary resources for researching World War I: peace pamphlets
It’s sometimes said that the richness of a library’s collection can be judged by the number and variety of its pamphlets. This Library has over a thousand boxes and volumes of pamphlets, which we aim...
View ArticleLibrary resources for researching World War I: periodicals
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...
View ArticleWorld 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...
View ArticleLibrary 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” –...
View ArticleQuaker Strongrooms blog at the turning of the year
Library reading room at Friends House, 1925-1927, by Hubert Lidbetter, architect (Library reference: 93/AL/12) It’s time to look back over the past 12 months on the Quaker Strongrooms blog and ahead to...
View ArticleFriends Emergency and War Victims Relief Committee cataloguing project:...
A 15 month project to catalogue the archives of the Friends Emergency and War Victims Relief Committee (FEWVRC) has now been completed, making accessible the records of an unprecedented Quaker relief...
View ArticleWilliam Penn’s “Excellent priviledge” (1687) on display in the British...
Tract Volume 563 is a miscellaneous collection of pamphlets dating from the 1670s to the early 20th century, unassumingly bound in blue cloth. But among its contents is a pamphlet that includes the...
View ArticleThe Hawkins Collection: an early Quaker library, its provenance and some puzzles
We’ve recently finished cataloguing the contents of the Hawkins Collection – a remarkable private library bequeathed by Richard Hawkins (1649?-1735) to Westminster Monthly Meeting. The collection...
View ArticleFriends and Armenian relief
April 24 is commemorated as the official anniversary of the Armenian genocide, which began in April 1915 with the round-up of Armenian intellectuals, followed by massacres and forced exile of hundreds...
View ArticleFriends Emergency and War Victims Relief Committee cataloguing project:...
A 15 month project to catalogue the archives of the Friends Emergency and War Victims Relief Committee (FEWVRC) has now been completed, making accessible the records of an unprecedented Quaker relief...
View ArticleWilliam Penn’s “Excellent priviledge” (1687) on display in the British...
Tract Volume 563 is a miscellaneous collection of pamphlets dating from the 1670s to the early 20th century, unassumingly bound in blue cloth. But among its contents is a pamphlet that includes the...
View ArticleThe Hawkins Collection: an early Quaker library, its provenance and some puzzles
We’ve recently finished cataloguing the contents of the Hawkins Collection – a remarkable private library bequeathed by Richard Hawkins (1649?-1735) to Westminster Monthly Meeting. The collection...
View ArticleFriends and Armenian relief
April 24 is commemorated as the official anniversary of the Armenian genocide, which began in April 1915 with the round-up of Armenian intellectuals, followed by massacres and forced exile of hundreds...
View ArticleSole survivor? A Dutch broadside by an early 18th century woman Friend
A few weeks ago we were enthralled to discover that the Library holds what is possibly the sole surviving copy of an early 18th century broadside by a little known woman Friend, Margaret Langdale...
View ArticleThe French Revolution: Quakers and cockades
When our project cataloguer came across a cockade (a type of ribbon rosette for wearing on a hat or pinned to a garment) from 1792 revolutionary France among the A. Ruth Fry papers (TEMP MSS 373),...
View ArticleOpening up the manuscript collections: an update on our online cataloguing...
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...
View ArticleThe life of a photograph and an extraordinary woman
Anne Knight, photograph by Victor Franck, c.1855 (LSF MS BOX W2) The Library’s Visual Resources Development Officer, Melissa Atkinson, talks about one enduring image in our collection. I am fascinated...
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