Eye hears about a haiku happenstance, a Quaker Christmas on the BBC, and offers a well-loved phrase for contemplative colouring…
by Elinor Smallman
Being unkind to Quakers Could being nasty to Quakers be a way of improving the country’s prospects? This unusual strategy caught the attention of Judith Mason, of Banbury…
The provenance of the price tag Eye has discovered that Friends had a hand in pricing becoming more equal. A tag indicating a fixed price was considered revolutionary at a time…
The curious attention of Voltaire The French Enlightenment writer Voltaire is best known for his satirical novella Candide. He also penned, however, a series of Letters on the…
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