Britain Yearly Meeting is moving through a three-year arc, ‘Living out our faith’, Meeting for Sufferings clerk Ethel Livermore explained in the papers. At Yearly Meeting 2015,…
A number of minutes from Area Meetings were brought to Sufferings. A concern over the use of the phrase ‘Quakers in Britain’ came from Cambridgeshire Area Meeting. A response…
Anne Bennett, clerk of the Quaker World Relations Committee (QWRC), spoke to its first annual report.
Meeting for Sufferings clerk Ethel Livermore described testing concerns as ‘something that a lot of Friends struggle with’. Her thoughts were echoed by Friends, one of whom…
Each year, Britain Yearly Meeting (BYM) sends representatives to other Yearly Meetings in Europe.
Friends House Library’s new online exhibition gives an overview of the introduction and impact of the Military Service Act, which came into force in March 1916.
Six leading Scottish academics are among those who have made public their concerns over the confusion that has resulted from a recent decision by the Joseph Rowntree Reform Trust…
Quaker Social Action (QSA) has turned its attention towards the criminal justice sector with its latest financial education project, ‘Adds Up’.
A recent episode of Channel 4’s investigative current affairs programme Dispatches focused on the Cadbury chocolate firm, contrasting current business practices with those of its…
The diaries, letters and notebooks of Yorkshire’s Joseph Wood are now online, part of the University of Leeds’ Quaker collections.
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