Quaker etiquette: a rough guide

A (very) rough guide to Quaker etiquette for the Yearly Meeting newcomer

by Siobhan Haire 10th June 2010

This last Britain Yearly Meeting (BYM), held in London 28 to 31 May, (in case you’ve been out of touch for awhile) was my first. It was probably the most momentous Quaker occasion I have attended. Ireland Yearly Meeting, my old stomping ground, is a much smaller, albeit perfectly formed, affair. So, as I cycled down to Euston on Friday evening, I was buzzing with excitement – it would, I assumed, be like the start of Harry Potter where the boy wizard is finally surrounded by people of his own type and doesn’t feel so alone and bitter about his rubbish family. Not that my family is rubbish, I hasten to add.