When I was four years old, I set out on adventures in a little walking frame, discovering the world and solving how to overcome the obstacles that were in the way. That little…
When poets go to war, they tell a dreadful tale, They tell of crucifixion, nail on bloody nail. They tell the tale of Cain again, slaughtering his brother. They tell of orphaned…
The Quaker Peace Testimony was a focus for discussion at a recent ‘Becoming Friends’ evening in our local Newbury Meeting. It brought back university memories from fifty years…
Military beyond the last you wait in neat rows for the last trump. Orderly and regular headstones on parade you form a hollow square to look on the great stone altar where grateful…
A new website was launched on Friday 26 October to inform voters about the upcoming election for Police and Crime Commissioners in all of England and Wales other than…
A year ago a conference on ‘Economic Justice and the Sustainable Global Society’ was held at Friends House. Delegates were asked to take away a number of questions to be…
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