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White Feather Diaries latest instalment and researching World War I
The latest instalment of The white feather diaries, an online project of British Quakers, goes live today. Updated daily on @wfdiaries, they tell of the challenges faced by five people who followed...
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Readers’ stories: Quaker women of the north east
The fifth in our series of readers’ stories is by Liz O’Donnell, who first used the Library 20 years ago. Her original research focused on local Quaker women in the north east in the 19th century, but...
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Preservation news: highlights of 2015
Though we are well into January, here’s a look back at some of the exciting and varied work done over the past year to preserve the Library’s collections for future generations of users. We were...
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The conscience of the nation: the work of three Quaker MPs during World War I
The Military Service Act came into force on 2 March 1916, and Quakers nationally are marking the centenary. Our new online exhibition Matter of conscience: Quakers and conscription gives an overview of...
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Three remarkable women of the twentieth century: Joan Mary Fry, Elizabeth Fox...
For Women’s History Month, we look at the lives of three remarkable women of the 20th century – Joan Mary Fry, Elizabeth Fox Howard and Francesca Wilson. Each of them in their own way responded to the...
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Celebrating more collections information online
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...
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Yearly Meeting 2016
Since the 17th century Friends have held an annual assembly known as Yearly Meeting. It’s changed a lot since its early days. Meetings regularly take place away from London, and what was once known as...
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Friends as missionaries: contemporary reports, newsletters and magazines
This blog post introduces some of the periodicals that document British Quakers’ activity in the foreign mission field from the second half of the nineteenth to the mid-twentieth century. Mission work...
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Preserving pamphlets: our student conservator talks about her work in the...
We’re lucky to have Beth Franklin, a student conservator, volunteering at the Library this autumn. She’s working on-site to conserve some of the Library’s nineteenth and twentieth century pamphlets. We...
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Good cheer!
What’s going to be in your Christmas stocking? Something good, we hope! For our final blogpost of 2016 we want to celebrate some of the “gifts” you’ve shared over the past twelve months. There have...
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War and social order
Reimagining a True Social Order is a new AHRC funded website exploring the historic background and contemporary significance of the Eight Foundations of a True Social Order, first agreed by London...
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Quaker women: resources for women’s history in the Library of the Society of...
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...
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Quakers say it loud: the poster collection of the Library of the Society of...
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...
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A 17th century Recording Clerk’s library: Richard Richardson’s books
As part of the ongoing work to improve access to the Library’s printed books and pamphlets we have now added the Richardson Collection to our online catalogue. Unlike the other early books catalogued...
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Refugees and relief
Refugee Week starts next Monday and here at Friends House we are having a series of events including a small exhibition in the Library on Monday open to all...
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From cupola, portico or archway: Quaker school magazines
We’ve touched on children’s magazines in a previous blog post about Quaker missionary periodicals. Another kind of publication concerning young people is the school magazine. Quaker schools generated a...
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“In turbulent times”: sources on local Quakers and their meetings over the...
For Quaker Week 2017, our head of Library & Archives, Libby Adams, travelled to Penrith Meeting to give a talk on local Quakers living through “turbulent times” (this year’s Quaker Week theme)....
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