Eye hears about a Winterval celebration held by teenage Friends in London, myths being debunked online by Discovering Quakers, and a light-hearted limerick…
by Elinor Smallman
The area around Lancashire and Swarthmoor, near Ulverston, is the birthplace of Quakerism – it is where George Fox travelled in 1652. It is the focus of many Quaker pilgrimages,…
Found in fiction John Lampen, of Stourbridge Meeting, popped into Eye’s mailbag with a fictional Friend penned by Daniel Defoe. He writes: ‘Your mention of a fictional Quaker…
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