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Quaker school governors meet
How boarders are best integrated into Quaker schools was one of the themes of the recent conference of governors of Quaker schools. The conference, which was held at the end of February at the University of Warwick’s Scarman Conference Centre, was addressed by Stuart Westley, of the Association...
Quaker fined for peaceful protest
A seventy-year-old Quaker from West Yorkshire has refused to pay a fine given to her for participating in a peaceful protest at an arms fair in London in September 2013.
Moscow concern over Ukraine
Moscow Monthly Meeting have asked Quakers worldwide to pray and work with them for peace in Ukraine. Friends in Moscow recently met to discuss the situation in Ukraine, and Russian involvement, and invited Mikhail Roshchin and Johan Maurer to prepare a statement on the basis of four principles that...
Turrell success in London
Four works by the artist James Turrell are on display at a leading London gallery until early April. The four frosted-glass screens, animated by sophisticated displays of LED lights, are one of the highlights of an exhibition at the Pace Gallery in central London.
Greening of Jesus Lane Meeting House
Friends in Cambridge are celebrating the successful completion of a project that has made their Meeting house more sustainable. Sixteen solar panels were installed on the roof of the Cambridge Jesus Lane Meeting House on Thursday 27 February as the last phase of an ambitious ‘greening programme’.
Fukushima remembered at Heysham
Lancaster Friend Mo Kelly is one of the organisers of a one-hour vigil to be held at the Heysham Nuclear Power Station in Lancaster at noon on Saturday 8 March to commemorate the accident three years ago at Fukushima in Japan. The anniversary of the nuclear incident at the Fukushima Daiichi...
The Winchester Whisperer
A fragile historical document written on toilet paper and housed in the library of Friends House was featured this week in a new BBC world war one project. The Winchester Whisperer was a newsletter written by conscientious objectors in Winchester Prison.
Fairtrade Fortnight highlights ‘banana wars’
Fairtrade Fortnight, which this year runs between 24 February and 9 March, will highlight the struggle of banana farmers around the world. Bananas, along with shopping basket staples such as bread and milk, have become a battleground on which the big four supermarkets – Tesco, Asda, Sainsburys and Morrisons – compete for market...
Woodbrooke launches online postgraduate courses
The first online postgraduate courses in Quakerism have been launched by the Woodbrooke Centre for Postgraduate Quaker Studies in Birmingham. The Centre, in conjunction with one of the top dozen universities in the UK, Lancaster University, is now offering the first online postgraduate courses in Quakerism: a Postgraduate Certificate...
Research grants opened up
The Friends Historical Society (FHS) research grants have been made available to more people than ever before. The awards, which are up to £500 each, will be open for the first time to non-academic researchers. A maximum of four grants will be made in 2014.