London-based Friends staged a third protest at the British Museum on Tuesday 3 June. A group of sixteen people held a silent Meeting for Worship in the building’s atrium…
More needs to be done to help prisoners, asserts a former Quaker prison chaplain in a new book. Confessions of a Prison Chaplain, by Mary Brown, was published last week and…
Friends in Brighton are seeking ideas from other Quaker Meetings for an initiative that aims to bring together people who hold different views on the Palestine/Israel…
A new biography of the Victorian philanthropist, educationalist and social reformer Joseph Rowntree is to be published in the autumn.
The conflicts faced by the Cadbury family of Birmingham in the first world war were featured in a half-hour film on BBC One West Midlands on 2 June.
History has been brought to life by students at Sidcot School in a dramatic re-enactment of the court martial of a prominent Quaker conscientious objector in world war one. …
A Brighton United Reformed church congregation has become the first in the UK to disinvest from fossil fuels. The decision by Brighthelm United Reformed Church ties in with…
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