Quaker peace work in Spanish civil war

‘The focus on the Quaker children’s refuges brings an unusual, and at times, almost unbearably poignant perspective, as we see children, once again, fleeing the horrors of war today’.

Quaker peace work in the Spanish Civil War is explored in a new book by the author Maggie Brookes-Butt. The novel Acts of Love and War draws on research from Friends House Library and follows three young British volunteers in the Spanish Civil War.

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