Fire away? Moya visits Banbury Friends for the annual Adderbury Lecture
‘Has the spirit of early Friends entirely left us, or could it be rekindled?’
Back in June, I took a train to Banbury to attend the annual Adderbury Lecture. On the train up, I’d been reading an article about the early history of Quakers in the town. It opened with this paragraph:
‘The Society of Friends, or the Quakers, have been active in Banbury for more than three centuries. For most of this period they have been a small but active religious body, whose behaviour and character have been of the utmost respectability. But Quakerism originated in the Interregnum, the period when the world was turned upside down. For more than a decade it was a movement which was in constant and public dispute with the established authorities.’
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