The Peace Museum in Bradford has received a funding boost from the Arts Council to help it expand and increase its peacebuilding work in the town and surrounding area.
Thirty thousand Muslims from the Ahmadiyya tradition gathered in Hampshire between 12 and 14 August for the UK’s longest standing Islamic conference and made a strong…
Quakers are among those listed in a new database of Welsh world war one conscientious objectors.
Friends were among a group of people who came to support Bahraini activist Isa Alaali at Hammersmith Magistrates’ Court on Tuesday 9 August.
More than fifty Young Friends gathered at Ackworth School in Pontefract, West Yorkshire, for the annual Northern Young Friends Summer Shindig.
Newcastle Meeting recently hosted a visit from four representatives of the Islamic Diversity Centre (IDC) North East.
The decision by oil giant BP to renew its arts sponsorship in Britain has been met with widespread criticism from Quakers and others.
Oscar winner Judi Dench, who has been associated with Quakers all her life, featured in the opening ceremony of the 2016 Olympic Games broadcast across the world on Saturday.
Twenty-two people attended The Kindlers annual general meeting (AGM) held recently at the Woodbrooke Quaker Study Centre in Birmingham.
A feature based on five diaries written at the battlefront of the Somme by Quaker William Farley Rutter of Shaftsbury in Dorset was broadcast on the BBC Radio 4 Sunday programme on…
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