Sheffield Adult Schools 1850 – 2010 by Richard Hoare The Adult School movement was founded by evangelical Quakers in mid-Victorian timesand grew to over one hundred thousand scholars nationwide in its Edwardian heyday.Sheffield was an early and important player in...
Hidden in Plain Sight by Laurel Phillipson & Alison Armstrong Airton, Malhamdale, in the Yorkshire Dales National Park, is located close to the geographic centre of the Pennines, where the east-west Way of the Roses cycle route crosses the north-south Pennine Way....
Quakers in Plymouth by Martin Wyatt A Friends’ Meeting in context 1654 to the 1960’s *Who could have kept 500 serge-makers in employment if they had not been imprisoned? *Whose bones were the subject of a successful protest when it was proposed to re-inter them in a...
From Divine Rights to Quakerism Author: Larry Walters From barbarism to enlightenment, war to peace, Larry Walters weaves an exciting and informative history of the journey from the rule of the few to the power of the people and shows how Quakerism with its pledge of...
Quakers and the First World War: Conscience and Courage from a Leeds Perspective Contributors: Diane Exley, Patricia Gerwat, Robert Keeble, and Susan Robson Editor: Veronica O’Mara World War 1 was traumatic for Quakers in Leeds as for everyone at the time. The Quaker...
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