Exhibition shows Quaker response to war

15 Jan 2015 | by Tara Craig

A major exhibition on the Quaker response to the first world war set to open

Friends Ambulance Unit volunteer workers distributing bread. | Photo: © 2015 The Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers) in Britain.

A major exhibition on the Quaker response to the first world war opens on 17 January in Birmingham.

‘Faith and Action: Quakers and the First World War’ will be on show in the Community Gallery at Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery until 7 June. Original photographs, film, interviews and artefacts will tell the stories of Quaker men and women during the 1914-1918 conflict and its aftermath.

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