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Over seventy events were held worldwide to mark World Quaker Day on 5th October

Quaker Week hailed ‘a success’

Over seventy events were held worldwide to mark World Quaker Day on 5th October

by Rebecca Hardy 24th October 2025

The influential physicist Jocelyn Bell Burnell unveiled a plaque in Bradford on Avon to mark the site of a former Quaker building on World Quaker Day. 

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