George Richardson Lecture
The annual George Richardson Lecture was delivered by Hilary Hinds
The Quaker author and academic Hilary Hinds, of Lancaster University, gave the annual George Richardson Lecture at Woodbrooke last month in which she spoke about her new work on early Quaker poetry.
According to Rhiannon Grant, tutor for Quaker roles and deputy programmes leader for the Centre for Research in Quaker Studies, the lecture on 22 June was recorded and Woodbrooke plans to post it on its website soon. She said: ‘There’s not much material, because Quakers worried about whether the strict forms of poetry made too much of a distraction from God, but [Hilary] Hinds described the work of Mary Mollineux, whose poems clearly spoke to Quakers: they were reprinted throughout the eighteenth century.’
The lecture is held every year by the Quaker Studies Research Association (QSRA) and the Centre for Research in Quaker Studies (CRQS).
George Richardson (1773-1862) was a Quaker who, at his death, was described as one of the ‘most respected of the inhabitants of Newcastle’. The annual lecture, established by the CRQS in 1996, is to commemorate the work he did as a Quaker in the north-east.
The Quaker Studies conference at which the lecture was delivered this year marked the twenty-fifth anniversary of the QSRA and twenty years of the CRQS.
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The lecture can be found at <https://www.woodbrooke.org.uk/resource-library/george-richardson-lecture-2023>
By pdahl173@icloud.com on 12th June 2023 - 7:58
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