Images from WWI – Postcard No.2 Badge worn by workers of the Friends War Victims’ Relief Committee, 1914-1918. Photo: © 2014 The Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers) in Britain.

Quakers in Britain have released a free resource pack

World war one resource pack launched

Quakers in Britain have released a free resource pack

by Ian Kirk-Smith 21st March 2014

Quakers in Britain have released a free resource pack that tells the stories of the early stages of world war one from a Quaker perspective – Witnessing for peace on the centenary of World War I.  Paul Parker, recording clerk of Britain Yearly Meeting, said: ‘This is the beginning of a four-year project for Quakers in Britain during which we will tell the untold stories of those who refused to fight in world war one.’