Cambridge Peace Trail

Quakers feature in a new peace trail around Cambridge

A new booklet has been launched guiding tourists around a peace trail in Cambridge. Pictured above is the Holy Trinity War Memorial Shelter which urges us to ‘Remember’, while inviting tired tourists and shoppers to rest.

Quakers are mentioned not only with the Meeting house on Jesus Lane, which dates from 1777, but also in the booklet’s entries for Friends such as Arthur Stanley Eddington, ‘who tried to keep wartime animosity out of astronomy’ by urging his Cambridge colleagues to preserve their pre-war relationships with their German colleagues, and Philip Noel-Baker, a Quaker who was a graduate of King’s College, the 1959 Nobel peace prize winner and the British delegate to the assembly of the League of Nations.

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