Historical Society’s journal goes digital
Over 100 years of the journal now available online
The Journal of the Friends Historical Society has been digitised after a two-year process that involved transferring hundreds of pages of text from printed issues.
The publication, which launched in 1904, has made all issues from 1903 to 2013 freely available online.
Gil Skidmore, editor of The Journal, told the Friend a wide variety of articles are available, including all annual presidential addresses. She said: ‘Because the journal is fully searchable it will be of particular interest to family and local historians, as well as to readers interested in a broad range of topics, not just Quaker historians.’
Material available includes studies of individual Quakers, local history, transcriptions of manuscripts (such as letters and minutes), book reviews and articles on subjects including slavery, the peace testimony and bibliography.
The Friends Historical Society has recently adopted the strapline ‘Quaker history for today’.
Gil Skidmore said: ‘This is because we believe that lessons can always be learned for the present from the past and that it is important for Quakers today to understand the many changes which the Religious Society of Friends has gone through.’
