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BBC film in Friends House

17 March 2016 | by Tara Craig | 0 comments

Filming in progress in the Library. | Jane Dawson for Britain Yearly Meeting.

A team from the BBC visited the library in Friends House on 10 March to film an item for BBC News at Ten and to record a piece for BBC Radio Four news.

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Website relaunch

17 March 2016 | by Tara Craig | 3 comments | 3 comments

The Quaker Concern Over Population (QCOP) has relaunched its website. QCOP’s new site offers a wide range of resources, including sections on women and population, consumption and Quakers’ views on over-population. It features links to videos, books and articles on the subject.

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Leaveners look to past to inform future

17 March 2016 | by Tara Craig | 0 comments

An early poster from 1989. | Courtesy of the Leaveners.

The Leaveners, the Quaker arts charity based in Birmingham, is to develop an archive.

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New project on Quakers and the first world war

17 March 2016 | by Tara Craig | 0 comments

A Quaker academic is to examine the effects of the first world war and its aftermath on the attitudes, activities and theology of the Religious Society of Friends in Britain.

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Lunchbreak flashmob

10 March 2016 | by Tara Craig | 0 comments

Friends outside Nottingham Meeting House. | Robin Bowles.

Huddersfield Friends attending a recent Northern Friends Peace Board (NFPB) meeting spent their lunchbreak taking part in a flashmob action.

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Quaker Service names new operations manager

10 March 2016 | by Tara Craig | 0 comments

David Morton. | Courtesy of David Morton.

David Morton will join Belfast-based Quaker Service as operations manager in March.

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Conscientious objectors to be honoured in Hitchin

FREE 10 March 2016 | by Tara Craig | 0 comments

A new peace garden in the grounds of Hitchin Meeting House will honour conscientious objectors, among others. Friends have been planning the garden for more than a year. They intend to create a path around the Meeting house grounds, that joins a number of ‘points of interest’. The first of...

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Let’s go fly a kite

10 March 2016 | by Tara Craig | 0 comments

The annual ‘Fly Kites Not Drones’ weekend will take place between 19 and 21 March to coincide with the Afghan New Year.

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Friends debate money in Bangor

10 March 2016 | by Tara Craig | 0 comments

Hywel Williams, Sue Holden and Ryan Heaton. | Tony Weekes.

Sue Holden of Wensleydale Meeting and Tony Weekes of South Belfast Meeting spoke at a public meeting at Bangor University in Wales on Thursday 3 March.

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Opposition to the Housing Bill

10 March 2016 | by Tara Craig | 0 comments

Friends will be participating in a national demonstration against the Housing and Planning Bill in London on Sunday 13 March.

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